Spoiled by WordPress
Over at The NeoSmart Files, they explain how WordPress spoils developers:
…but every single time it boiled down to WP: No matter what the program, audience, or goal, WordPress just did things better. In a nutshell, the blogging market is c.l.o.s.e.d. – as in no more room, and most importantly, no more competition; because let’s face it, whatever you’ve got, it’s just never going to be good enough.
Read the whole thing (and the clarification) to understand that quote in context, but they seem to have a good point. It’s awfully hard to try to build something that can replace WordPress in features, extensibility, and ease of use.
In fact, that’s the main reason I still haven’t switched this site over to something I wrote with Django. Why bother? WordPress does everything I want to do and more, so other than purely as a learning experience (definitely not a bad reason) it just doesn’t seem to be worth the effort.
Or maybe I’m just really lazy…
February 18th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I call this the “bringing sand to the beach” phenomenon. Why do what 100 other devs before you have done? On one hand it’s a valid argument. On the other we’d all still be using sendmail if there were no reason to ever write a new $something.
February 18th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Sendmail… :shiver:
Anyway…
It’s a valid point that writing a replacement app is what gives us innovation in many areas. But to think that I’m going to single-handedly write a Django-based weblog that will be comparable to WordPress in features/scope is a little far-fetched if you ask me.