March 24, 2005 at 10:22PM Why do people still use GreyMatter?
This really puzzles me. I’ve came across a few sites, sites still being updated, that run GreyMatter. Now, I’ve nothing against Noah Grey: I used to read his weblog and he always came across to me as a good and decent human being, and a fine photographer. But that doesn’t stop me from wondering why in the name of all that’s good and holy people are still using the blogging code he wrote.
GreyMatter has a lot of problems. And I do mean a lot. It’s full of redundancies, global variables (and oddly named ones too, such as FUNNYFEETSCRATCH: wtf?!), the gm-library.cgi file alone is about 600kB, at least eight to ten times bigger than it should be considering what the program does, &c. The codebase just just one giant WTF. Now, this would be fine except for the fact that so many people ended up using it in the earlier days of blogging. This is not a good thing.
So, is there any equivalent of the project to replace the Matt’s Scripting Archive scripts with something written properly for GreyMatter? Not that I can see. In fact, there appears to have been an update to the existing codebase recently, but no effort to refactor it into some kind of shape, and it doesn’t even use CGI.pm! Though, in fairness, at least the guys working with it now agree.
It’s enough to make a man rewrite the thing from scratch, I tell you!
1 On April 21, 2005 at 9:19, maca wrote:
I’ll hold my hand up as a Greymatter user. Why do I use it? Because it works, it’s easy to use. I tried MT at one stage and had problems with installation (I always seem to have problems with perl scripts with my host, Greymatter’s installation was flawless). Although I know something about code I couldn’t care less if some file is 10 times bigger than it needs to be as long as it does the job. And Greymatter does ;)