I finally got around to fixing my Chyrp installation, so I can resume my bloggingness. I still quite enjoy Chyrp, so I’ve upgraded it to 2.0 final and am back to using it again. I’ve made some changes that will hopefully improve the experience.
First, I’ve removed the ability for people to post comments. Very little good comes of enabling comments; rather, they attract spam and drive-by comments which are unproductive. Most people who do respond will do so via Twitter.
Second, the auto-posting to Twitter is still going to happen. However, many people were understandably annoyed when I would post a link to the blog, and the auto-tweet would post a link to the blog, needing to click another link to get to the actual content. I toyed with the idea of framing the link content, but popular opinion says that it’s a greedy and inappropriate thing to do. Instead, I made the following improvements to ensure that links cross-posted will be a little less awful:
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text posts and project announcements will link to the blog,
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link posts will have a direct link posted,
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photo posts will be direct-linked where possible, but will link to the blog if there’s no direct link
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video posts will link to the blog, because YouTube is full of idiots
Third, I’ve created this site design after a couple months of working on it, named Cream. It’s meant to be extremely minimalist and to emphasize the page content. It’s nearly complete, and will be open-sourced when it’s done.