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I honestly laughed so hard when I read that wordpress.org (I won’t link it) made use of search engine manipulation, how lame is that — honestly.. hah!
They scream about how comment spam is wrong because its primary purpose is to manipulate Google’s page rank, hell they even implemented ‘nofollow’, and then they do it themselves, haha… Talk about double standards, psh…
Apparently their excuse is that running an open source project is expensive, well I can understand that, but thats why we have SourceForge, you don’t have to host everything on your own server, and pay for bandwidth, and I’ve never received a single dime for my work on Serendipity, so WordGate anyone?
Did I mention Serendipity has a nice Wordpress importer?
++ April 1st, 2005 – *Serendipity 0.8-beta5 released*
No indication if this is a April Fools joke, but I have no reason to think it is.
I was pretty disappointed when I read it :/ I’ve been using WordPress for a year now, and always had the notion, that it was one of the best tools available for us two-thumb-php-disconnected people out there.
I was actually thinkin’ of using their new 1.5 release in sheer boredom for a new look to my site. Now I’m not so sure…
Michael Heilemann is somewhat of a guru for me, and he still throws his thumbs-up their way (I know – he made the look, but still, a guru is a guru ;)
Maybe Serendipity is the way to go.
Anyhow, Wordpress still owns serendipity.
Google`s nofollow thing is a blame, thats true, but for this wordpress (I linked it) user can use the nonofollow Plug-In, and i`m sure that this thing will work in wp2 soon.