Earlier this month I moved this blog back over to WordPress in an act of madness. I hated it and did little blogging in that time. In considering why I hated the experience at WordPress so much, I came upon an interesting parallel. Habari is to WordPress what Apple is to Microsoft.
One of the things that can be said about Apple when compared to Microsoft is that Apple provides a more elegant computing experience that has been better thought out. In a similar fashion Habari is by far the more elegant product where the details have been sweated out and the experience has been better considered.
As a simple example when you install WP you get a random password in your email box and then the second you log into the panel you get a message asking you to change your password. Why didn't you let me choose a password during the installation process?
Meanwhile on Habari, the installation is all done on the same page, you insert your preferred password right there.
As another example once you've logged into WordPress you're bomobarded with this clusterfuck of items - TMI (too much information). Yes, i know you can remove most of that stuff (but this is all feeding into my analogy). These items aren't necessary, they're added first and you are asked to remove them. It's like when you buy yourself a Dell PC and get a whole bunch of crapware installed on it, which you can remove (most of the time).
Habari doesn't have that shit to begin with. These items have not been added from the outset. These things have been considered. And who else do we know that doesn't like superflous stuff cluttering your view and generally getting in your way? These are just a couple of examples which I might expand upon, because the above is basically the tip of the iceberg.
These are subtle differences but important I think in the final assessment, afterall the devil is in the details.
Lol so no longer WordPress? Back to Habari? ;) NICE ^_^
Sometimes you need to loose something to understand what you actually had. In the 2 weeks I was running WP, I posted a grand total of 3 times. I posted 5 time yesterday alone. What I thought was an issue, was actually not an issue and in fact it get a hell of a lot more right than wrong.
I'd like to take the opportunity to defend WordPress.
I enjoy using it, the admin interface makes sense to me and the install was a breeze. The only complaint I've ever had was updating and now that works like a charm too. Couldn't be happier.
Each to their own and all that.
@rpcutts
My intention was to explain why I personally couldn't use it again and why I felt the need to go back. As always you have to consider everything when providing a backend solution for a website. In my case Habari is exactly what I want (although there is room for improvement, which I will be talking about).
However I was commenting on the different ethos between the two systems, which really struck me as pertinent for me flipping back and forth. In the same way I can't use windows as my personal computer, I can't use WordPress for my personal site :).
Welcome back my friend!
It is gratifying to me, and I know the community as a whole, that you had your own Coke Taste Test and Habari still had something to recommend itself on.
I look forward to having you back at it helping us make things better over here.