No, There's no cream for it.
I've started using Habari as my blogging software on this site because my brother is on the team creating it. I'm enough of a geek to know my way around most stuff but I've never been on an alpha release of a product. I'm used to getting my hands on a polished or at least presentable piece of software. I'm finding myself torn between being helpful and having useful input and just saying,
For instance, It took me at least a minute to put that picture into this post. A minute? yes! In internet terms, that's about 3 years, 6 weeks, 9 days and 7 hours. Worthless. Why? Because, to quote somebody close to the project, "wysiwyg sucks." The back end UI for writing this is slick, pretty, and impressive. But it's also counter-intuitive, somewhat confusing, and a bit too sparse. Apparently there are lots of features that would make my life easier but they're not put out where they can be found unless you know where to look or somebody points them out. I'm getting horrible images of the Windows Vista logo... scary shit.
That being said, it seems straightforward enough and I haven't come across anything that makes me want to trash it. The bad thing is that I also haven't found a single reason to change over to it. I have a blog running on Wordpress and this one on Habari. If somebody said, "Hey Yams, I know you use Habari and Wordpress right, Which do you recommend?" I'd give the thumbs up to Wordpress. In fairness, that's at least in part due to the fact that WP is a mature software with lots of support and plugins and documentation while Habari is just getting off its feet but if their code monkeys don't realize that Form !> Function, it never will.
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