Injader: An Australian Open Source Blog Platform
By AndrewBoyd • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Recent postsBen Barden announced the other day that Injader (formerly Majestic) is now Open Source under the GPL license.
While Ben is from the UK (through no fault of his own 
), he does now reside in Australia. After three years of closed development, he has decided to open up Injader to a wider audience.
I am trialling Injader over at On Blogging currently - it is not a very good advertisement for the platform as I’ve not put the time into it that it deserves, but it is coming along. After a comprehensive trial period I will probably start cutting over my other blogs to Injader as time allows.
Apart from the Injader Help Forums, there is now an Injader Forum on the Aussie Bloggers Forum.
AndrewBoyd is a consultant by day and blogger by night. He loves good food, good wine, and discussing faceted classification schemes with friends.
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It’s funny how all open source projects start with a pure code bed that is easy to use. And overtime they morph into a tangled mess of coding styles, good and bad practices along with patch on patch of quick fix solutions. In the end any solution must reset after a given set of time and face the fact it has become unworkable.
Blogging software is no different. Will we be cursing Injader like wordpress, OScommerce and the like in few years time.
Hi Gary,
thank you for your comment.
I think that feature creep is inevitable - and as complexity increases, keeping track of all the moving parts causes grief. Keeping all the old stuff working while adding new stuff is hard.
I’m hoping that Ben can see this balance and work within it - he has seen the pain that WP 2.5 has caused.
Best regards, Andrew
Gary, thanks for the feedback. The main thing I’ve noticed is that WordPress tries to be everything to everyone. Furthermore it relies heavily on plugins for some things that I’d consider to be “core functionality”.
With making changes, I think the key is in not being afraid to say no. For instance if someone comes to me saying they primarily want to build a forum, I would recommend that they try vbulletin. And while Injader does allow you to do some things with file attachments and galleries, a system such as PhotoPost will provide a much richer experience for dedicated gallery sites.
With a general purpose system, there’s always a danger of being a jack of all trades and a master of none. My goal is to make Injader easy and even enjoyable to use using the default install. If you have a large userbase, you really can’t please everyone with a single system. If you try, you’ll end up with too many things that miss the mark - half-finished or badly designed features that were just added to say “yes it does this”.
When building a site I think it’s better to review the requirements and think about which system it would be best suited to, rather than trying to shoehorn it into the same system every time. Some sites work perfectly on WordPress. Some might be better off with another system.
I have no intention of trying to make Injader be everything to everyone, and in my opinion, that’s where WordPress has gone wrong. If you can use however many plugins to make WordPress function as a full-blown web CMS, does it make it the best solution?
Hi Ben,
thanks for contributing to the discussion.
I agree that this is where WP has gone wrong - by taking on a heap of feature requests.
Best regards, Andrew
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I’m interested in trialling Injader to see how it compares to Wordpress. I have a few questions I want to ask about it, and tried registering on the Injader forum but it seems a bit broken?
The register page pops up a system dialogue box asking for a “No Acccess” user name and password? What’s that all about? If I cancel that to see the registration page, the verification code is not generated so you can’t complete the registration process.
Hi Matt,
thank you for your comment.
Not sure what is happening with the Injader forums, I’ve let Ben know that you’re having an issue.
Best regards, Andrew
Sorry about that, Matt. I was trying out some new security settings in version 2, and obviously they didn’t work! I have corrected the issue - you should be able to register now.