What I really really want is Slash or Everything2 running in DBD::SQLite.
Actually I'm not entirely sure that's what I want either. I just want a simple news system with comments that runs totally self contained (the self contained part is important to me - I don't want to maintain a database and I don't want to run a separate daemon).
So I'm writing one in AxKit, because they all seem too complex for my simple needs right now. It's a shame really, as I'll probably grow to want all those extra features, and maybe it'll be a lesson learned well. But I know how I am, and so if I can build something like this in a day or two, I probably will (and I think I can, having written a lot of O'Reilly's WebBoard4Unix - which is a lot more complex than I need).
It's Perl and it supports Berkeley DB.
Re:MT
Matts on 2003-01-03T01:14:59
I don't think it's quite what I'm looking for though...
MT is focussed on blogs, whereas I really want a dumbed down slashdot with better support for "proper" articles. Actually something more like what XML.com has - articles plus a place for comments at the end.Re:MT
gav on 2003-01-03T02:19:52
MT can do this. It's pretty flexible, instead of thinking about a blog entry, think article. You can do some pretty clever things with the templates.The only thing I don't think you could do easily (though you could write a plugin) would be articles over multiple pages.
Re:MT
frontier on 2003-01-12T01:47:37
MovableType is hugely flexible. Here are a few examples MT being used to display articles...
WDIK:library
Boxes and Arrows
The Morning News
nistudents.org...a site I am working on
Also since a plugin architecture is now available many plugins have been developed... MovableType plugins
Funny, I just posted a comment on the everydevel-opers list about wanting a SQLite backend to Everything. Since we have a standalone web server now, why not a standalone database server too?
I'll give you a cookie if you think about it...
