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Unclear future of CMSity
Tags: Future, NewsIs closed-source project like CMSity doomed to the death nowadays?
Seems it is very hard to spread the news about CMSity around the world, and acquire some user base of this project. Till now I did few commercial deployments of CMSity, however the cmsity.com page hits look really miserable.
I wrote mails to many CMS magazines asking to drop a note about my project. However only two of them replied and posted something on their sites about CMSity. So I still miss some more reviews that can put a breathe into the project. But it seems my mails are ignored by majority of big CMS related sites making very hard to promote new project like CMSity nowadays.
Since I believe this software presents great value and outperforms other popular solutions I consider releasing it as open-source, however probably not GPL but some license that will force the code to stay by the author (me), deny all the forks, making all community changes happen to be included in the source code base.
Open-source is a great idea, but I have seen too many projects that were just bloated, forked and spoiled by masses of developers that were just about put something of themselves in the project regardless of quality of the included changes, missing overall sense and directions of the project itself. That is why I decided to keep the code closed initially, while giving the licenses for free, but it seems non-open source project are just kicked out of the focus today, and releasing the source code is a "must" to gain the momentum.
Adam 2009-04-28
CMSity vs WordPress
Tags: PerformanceSince I am performance freak I just want to drop some benchmarks I have recently did to CMSity 1.0, WordPress 3.6.x and Pligg 1.0 RC4 (used for one of my deployments) on my server.
It seems that CMSity is at least 5x faster than WordPress. Those results are underrated since I used my own WP installation having 3 users and 250 entries, and ALLPlayer's CMSity installation backup having ~8'000 users and 2'000 entries.
More...Adam 2009-04-28
Lost & found at CMSReport
Tags: News, ReviewsBrian Ruby from CMSReport.com has just found my mail in his mailbox, so CMSity was introduced at CMSReport.com. Brian, thanks for spreading the news about CMSity around the world.
Adam 2009-03-05
CMSity introduced by CMS Critic
Tags: News, ReviewsCMSity has just been introduced to the public at cmcritic.com. Hope those words of news will help gain a great userbase for our nifty CMS engine.
Big thanks to Mike Johnston for his immediate response to my mails and writing great introductory article at: http://cmscritic.com/introducing-cmsity-one-of-the-smallest-cms-on-the-market
Adam 2009-02-25
Pro license is on sale now
Tags: PayPal, PurchasePro license is now available for purchase trough PalPal. The price is 199€ per server (host name) plus VAT if you are E.U. resident.
You may wonder if 199€ is attractive price. Well I hope it is. First of all, most of you will find Free version, that can be used for any purposes, enough. Having in mind that Free comes already with forums, blogs, RSS and all functionality known from advanced systems.
Features available for those extra 199€ enable CMSity to be used on "enterprise" level sites working with many languages, having complicated document levels and access control. So once you find CMSity Free great for yourself, you may find it useful for your company or your commercial web projects too, where 199€ isn't much.
Adam 2009-02-25
CMSity bundle is ready to download
Tags: ReleaseI am happy to announce that I have finally pushed the CMSity bundle in the downloads. Latest for today is 1.0.229 where 1.0 means the feature set and 229 is internal version revision. You can expect updates such as bug fixes for 1.0 to be regularly released during the time of development.
CMSity bundle comes with Free license that you may use on any server for any purposes. If you want to know more about the licenses have a look at Comparison.
New features will be released as 1.1 version, so keep an eye on the Downloads and our RSS for updates.
Adam 2009-02-25
ALLPlayer.org the most notable CMSity user
Tags: Demo, ShowcaseLast month I finalized deployment of CMSity at www.allplayer.org, making it the most notable CMSity user and showcase. ALLPlayer is versatile and very popular video player for Windows platforms.
Currently ALLPlayer.org site has almost 5'000 registered users today, 7 language versions.
More...Adam 2009-02-25
Demo site
Tags: DemoYou can find CMSity demo site at demo.cmsity.com, you may try the CMSity default bundle setup there. Demo site database is being reset every 5 minutes, so do not worry if you mess it up.
Demo sites contains L&F and templates exactly as they are bundled within install ZIP files + some extra sample content (sample forum & blog). You may expect that your initial CMSity installation will look the same. Have fun!
Adam 2009-01-15
Documentation is ready
Tags: DocumentationI have finished working on the brief Documentation. All API functions are documented. Tutorial is not really complete, it deserves more than just a brief explanation how to start with CMSity. However I think I will be expanding it while getting feedback from you.
More...Adam 2009-01-15
CMSity genesis
Tags: HelloAfter spending few years using WordPress, MODx, PHPnuke I found out those systems getting more and more complicated, well yes sophisticated too, but first of all complicated. Anyway, feeling that this is not right direction I have decided to rewrite something by my own; simple, but powerful enough to provide functionality that you expect from most of the modern sites - blog, forums, RSS feeds.
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