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Re: URLFind – Faites une petite analyse de votre site

François Nonnenmacher — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:23:03 -0000

Deux essais, le 1er affiche un lien entrant qui n'existe pas, le 2nd ne trouve aucun des liens sortants présents sur la page.

Ce service n'a pas l'air très fiable.

Re: As Campaign Ends, Was Calling Out "Dying Platforms" Good for Posterous?

François Nonnenmacher — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:52:43 -0000

And today Posterous dies. Oh the irony…

Re: Movable Type Releases 39 Plug Ins, Includes Social, Analytic, Editing Enhancements

François Nonnenmacher — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:37:39 -0000

Funny to see CMSWire refer to MT as a "blogging platform" when it's a real CMS that happens to have a good blog engine inside. Nothing forces you to have a blog when using MT for publishing a website. (Ironically, that's precisely the move from a blog-only engine (MT4) to a CMS (MT5) that bothered a few people years ago.)

Re: One minor point on the comment bullshit

François Nonnenmacher — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:07:38 -0000

Good point on the link juice, but why not using the rel="nofollow" attribute on a link and make the experience for your readers better while not giving any SEO advantage to the source?

Re: The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation

François Nonnenmacher — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:30:52 -0000

"There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to self-host."

Actually there is: Dotclear. Much simpler to use, less hacky for the power-user but better written and less of a hog than WP. Very popular in francophone-land and powering thousands of blogs (the Gandiblog hosted platform at Gandi is based on it). Never heard of an attack against it.

Disclosure: I'm a Movable Type veteran and make a decent living out of it. I understand the line between the casual, non-technical blogger and the power-user, but I would not use WP either personally or on a professional basis, precisely because of the regular security issues it has, that other blog/CMS software have not. I tend to agree with the "dominance factor" being an incentive for attackers, but I disagree that this is the only explanation for WP (and its plugins) poor security track record.