I’ve now officially taken all the shit I’m going to from Typo.

  • a seemingly dead codebase
  • rubbish antispam
  • takes an age to post comments
  • takes even longer to delete spam comments (see above points)
  • have a cronjob to restart it 4 times a day

(The last point seems to be standard practice for plenty of commercial software I’ve babysat over the years, but I’m not having it here).
To be fair, a lot of the issues are down to running this on a $12/month hosting account – I’ve had to turn off a lot of features to save memory.

I’m in the middle of migrating from Textdrive → Joyent anyway and I refuse to replicate this shambles on the new box.

The plan is to switch over to WordPress (yes, it’s PHP, but I don’t intend to hack the code at all).

I’m going to pull all the articles over by abusing the RSS feed, so anyone on a reader might see a few (hundred) duplicate posts in the next day or two. Will do my best to preserve permalinks and comments, although tags might go south for a bit.