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Over on wordpress.com,

... everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb.

• Free Space to Three Gigabytes « WordPress.com

I can't help but feel that this is a step in the wrong direction for a blogging platform. The assumption is that you're using your blog to manage your media. I would only need that much space because there's no easy way to access the media in the places where I've already got it hosted. If I already use Flickr for my images, if I already use Viddler for my videos, why do I want to manage those media separately with my blog? [Yes, I chose to illustrate my point with the only two media silos implemented so far for Habari. It's only because I'm biased.]

Other than that, I'm sure it will make a lot of people happy.

I've released version 0.2 of the Publish Quote plugin. Five minutes after I released it, Christian Mohn had installed and tested it, and given some good feedback. About 20 minutes later Owen Winkler had added the functionality I'd flagged in a todo in the code, and added some documentation. How can you not love open source development? Changes:

• A choice of bookmarklets, one to leave the page you're quoting and one to open a new window or tab.
• Configurable template for quoting.
• Documentation.

I often quote web sites on my blog. In WordPress this was made easy with the bookmarklet on post-new - just highlight some text and click the bookmarklet and you've got a new formatted post with the quoted text. Publish Quote is a plugin that provides this functionality for Habari. It's only been tested on a Mac using Firefox , Safari and Camino. Bug reports, feedback, or just comments letting me know you're using it are welcome. One issue is that you have to have an active Habari session. As things stand, if you don't, you get a big fat ...

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Owen Winkler has made a screencast of Habari's new Media Silo functionality, which provides a unified interface to different media, such as the server's file system, Flickr and Viddler, with many more to come. I love this feature.

I've just released version 0.1beta of the Connections theme for Habari. I'm happy to move to beta now because I'm actually using it on this site, and have made a lot of updates (0.1alpha was actually pretty badly broken). Please let me know if you use the theme, or even if you test it.

Details

• Use the comment content output set up in theme.php
• Removed redundant tagline from the sidebar
• Changed class content to id content in entry.multiple (which it should have been all along).
• Changed post.php so that it does not include the date, and moved the date ...

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Owen Winkler has responded to Jacob Santos' post outlining why he wouldn't move to Habari with a point-by-point attempt to change Jacob's mind. Owen was a long-time developer of WordPress and a founding member of the Habari team and so has much experience of both communities. I've only been involved with Habari for a short time, after paddling around the edges of WordPress for a little while, so my perspective is much more as an outsider. Jacob complains about the complex file and directory structure of Habari. I've hacked the core, worked on themes and plugins, from scratch and extending ...

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After mucking around with Habari for the last few months, including porting the Connections theme, and loving the community, I'm now posting from my brand new, shiny Habari installation. I'm sure there will be some fine-tuning of the theme over the next month or so, to move it from alpha to beta. There are a few issues I know about already, like incomplete support for multiple entries, and there may be other things I don't know about. If you find anything, please let me know. Thanks to all the Habari community for helping me migrate.

Thanks to concise advice from Owen Winkler (aka ringmaster), my test Habari install now has the same URLs as my existing WordPress blog. That means that when I move, all my links will still work. It would have been a pain to redo all my internal links, but those three sites out there in the wild web that link to me are really valuable ... For reference (lines wrapped for clarity): INSERT INTO habari__rewrite_rules (name, parse_regex, build_str, handler, action, priority, is_active, rule_class, description) VALUES ('display_entry', '%(?P<year>\\d{4})/ (?P<mon0>\\d{2})/ (?P<mday0>\\d{2})/ (?P<slug>[^/]+)[/]{0,1}$%i', '{$year}/{$mon0}/{$mday0}/{$slug}', 'UserThemeHandler', 'display_post', '8', '1', '0', ''); [Update: Don't copy ...

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Michael Bishop (aka miklb) over at Blogging Meta has released a new version of the Mzingi theme for Habari. I used Mzingi as a reference when I was porting the WordPress Connections theme to Habari, trying to figure out how Habari themes work. It's a really nice theme. Kudos to Michael for all his great work with Habari.

I've just released a port of the WordPress Connections theme by Patricia Müller for Habari. At the moment it's an extremely basic and direct port. There is no support for plugins, no blogroll and no archives. If anyone uses it and has any requests, let me know. In fact, if anyone uses it, feel free to let me know. This is my first Habari theme, so it's probably really crappy. I don't mind if you tell me it's crappy if you do it in a nice way or tell me how to fix it. I did derive some of ...

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