What is Habari? “Habari” is a Swahili word that means “what’s the news?” It’s similar to the English “What’s up?” or the Spanish “¿Qué pasa?” The typical response is “mzuri sana”, which means “very good.” Actually its just a new blogging software in development. I believe Habari has lots of potential as a CMS, but also as a place to find a lot of exploits.
Remember I made a DoFollow Trackbacks plugin a while ago? Well, guess what, habari has no “nofollow” attribute in comments or trackbacks. And since habari is developed by some of the individuals who have also helped wordpress grow, the pages in their blogs have really hight pagerank values. To find additional blogs who use habari as a CMS platform, use the below string to search in Google:
“powered by habari”
Some of the high Pagerank blogs that are powered by Habari:
- http://www.chrisjdavis.org
- http://www.morydd.net
- http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org
- http://binarybonsai.com
- http://blog.tinyau.net
- http://wooga.drbacchus.com
Can I say happy commenting?
The way I see it is you should aprove or deny all comments/trackbacks, because the bots are going to come and spam you whether or not rel="nofollow" is in the link, and you'll still have to delete them if you care to keep your blog spam-free. But what about those people who has a legit post, website, or track-back that they know about and want to share with you. Shouldn't they get some credit? That is the point of pagerank – websites with useful content will go up naturally because people find the information and help get it out there.
Congratulations, you've defeated the point of search engines.
We think <a href="http://habariproject.org">Habari</a> is a great app too, as young as it is. Habari doesn't automatically assume that any link in a comment is spam. The spam protection is quite good, and like yourself, I think if someone goes to the effort of leaving a comment that contributes to the conversation, they are more than welcome to link to thier own site. If the comment doesn't contribute to the conversation, it simply won't appear, so nofollow is unneeded. So feel free to visit and comment, I'd love to hear from you.
You guys have forgotten the fact that people do actually hire people to make comments on forums like sitepoint.com and they do make relevant comments so that you approve them. Thats why I made my DoFollow Trackbacks plugin. Only people who deserve it will have the courtesy of dofollow.
Another way to prevent spam might be to NOT display emails in plaintext on websites.
I see your point, though, but have no problem denying such comments.
Graham
One of the stated goals of Habari is to make the core as lean as possible, while making the plugin architecture as robust as possible.That being said, it would be pretty simple for someone to write a plugin that adds no follow to links automatically, and also allow for individual links to be excepted.On top of that, I am of the opinion that no follow is useless, and has not done a thing to combat the spread of spam. But that is just my opinion, and not reflective of the project.
I know you are going with the "core" linux ideology, I think habari will have more chance of overtaking WordPress if it is more basic-user-friendly. Some of the most popular plugins like post ratings, top posts, paged comments should be integrated.
You said, "Some of the most popular plugins like post ratings, top posts, paged comments should be integrated. "
There is nothing stopping anyone from developing these as plugins for Habari, except maybe the fact that Habari is still in ALPHA. This is a very young project (though already totally awesome, much leaner, meaner and FASTER than WP– and maybe you should consider why it's faster.)
Anyway, for the record, I haven't used any of the plugins you think are so important, and neither have any of my clients or friends. Which points up to me the reason they should remain plugins and not part of core architecture.
I totally agree with you to some extent, but wordpress has a very range of users and with wordpress eliminating all the competition, habari will have very hard time finding users to create plugins.
Maybe a poll on habari mainpage to find which wordpress plugins are used most?
I think no one can beat wordpress at this point unless you offer more with better performance and usability.
If we make the goal of Habari to “beat WordPress” we’ll always be following. The goal of Habari is to be something that does one thing and does that very well. WordPress has evolved into a fairly powerful CMS, whereas Habari aims to be a blogging platform. It is expandable, via plugins, to be much more than that, but the goal is not to do what WordPress does. As the userbase grows, so will the plugins available. We have very active mailing lists and an IRC channel, where if people express a desire for functionality, people with the skills and desire can make things happen. We do appreciate the feedback.
does this really work.anyone used this.