Graffiti will officially launch tomorrow morning! We're really excited to get this new content management tool into the market.
Today is also the last day to pre-purchase Graffiti 1.0 at the $99 price. Tomorrow Graffiti 1.0 will be $399.
I'm impressed. I haven't been paying much attention to blogging (or CMS) software. I've been running CS 2.0.x since... 2006? I think that's when I made the switch (from a much older version of .Text - never upgraded that either).
I like the simplicity. With the version of CS I'm running - and I'm sure it's been greatly improved - things are much more hands-on. I've fiddled extensively with everything from the source up. I never upgraded to later versions of CS because I'd already made enough changes that it couldn't be easily done. It would have required *way* too much effort. Plus, CS 2.0.x has been "good enough" for me this whole time.
This Graffiti business is the first thing I've seen in ages that tempts me. I still have to look into it a bit more, but it really does look slick 'n easy.
My needs have changed over the years, too. I used to *want* to fiddle with everything in a granular way - without simple UIs and configuration screens, as many control-freak geeks do.
I'm ready to change :)
Also, I thought it was funny that Scott was using XP in the demo video. I run XP on my Mac under Parallels. I don't mean to talk the smack, but Vista never pleased me. Don't know why Scott's using it, though... maybe it's a requirement of the screencap app he's using.
Anyway, like I said, it looks slick. Good job. You guys have consistently done what I think is the best work in the area of blog/CMS software over the years. Especially as a coder - over the past I-don't-know-how-many-years, nothing has, for me, come to rival .Net. I can't even get into the spirit of things on the Mac - Cocoa and Objective-C - because .Net is so bloody far beyond what Apple users have ever seen.
But I'm gushing about something we all know well enough.
Gonna go learn about the nitty-gritty of this Graffiti thing now...
Well.
That didn't take long.
I'm buying it :)
Finally...
I have been waiting for it. Good job for you guys :)
I've been running this site on Community Server since mid-2006. It's good stuff, but it's time to move...