Everything. THE OVERHAUL: Where is the data? (mongodb, postgresql, flat files, lisp data persisted with cl-store or similar, etc) What views are supported? (tag-based, reverse-chronological, single-post, etc) How is the data edited? (web-admin-interface-p) Who serves the data? (S3, Lisp server (hunchentoot/etc), System HTTPD (lighttpd/apache/etc) How are comments handled? (Cloud service (disqus/etc), Stored and generated locally, disabled) Old Coleslaw: Allow choices. New Coleslaw: Screw choices! "You can have it in any color as long as its black." What views are supported? tag-based, reverse-chronological, single-post Where is the data? git How is the data edited? git status/inotify Post generation? Static What is the post format? (markdown, plaintext, rst, etc, anything with a parser plugin!) How are comments handled? They're not supported. What about themes? Templates are themes. DUH. Plugins? Injection support for HEAD and BODY. What about predicate-based injection? How is it served? Hunchentoot, Lighttpd, S3, whomever! Historical Shifts It's interesting to note two things. 1) Blogs went from static->dynamic->static being hip. -- Some of this was motivated by technological fashion. 2) Comments went from being inessential->essential->inessential. -- This latter point is largely related to shifts in social networks. -- No more livejournal, RSS feeds don't promote communities. -- Blogs are platforms designed for content syndication/publishing, not intelligent discourse. Move over May-2007 to present. TODO: ; fix plugins: s3, wordpress ; implement plugins: atom, markdown, pygment/highlighting ;; Incremental compile: only "touched" posts+tags+months. By-20 must be redone, of course. ;; support old URLs via use of post-aliases? ;;; plugins: analytics, logging/monitoring, crossposting, disqus ;;;; write a proper version of escape considering wild pathnames and valid URL issues