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I've used a lot of content management systems since I started "blogging" in THE YEAR 2000. I have yet to see one that works properly. Not even, "has a few too many features", or "is kind of hard to use". I mean fucking, works.

I've used News Publisher, Coranto, whatever Coranto was called before it was Coranto, WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, phpNuke, and others I've repressed and forgotten. I'm currently back to using Blogger for this site.

And Blogger, in addition to having obscure template variables and insane ways of separating templates (just like every classic CMS), has this thing where any minor change I make, it tries to reupload every single file to my web server. And I make changes iteratively, so changing the layout of this site is impossible. Even though it currently looks like shit.

Why do I have to sit and click a link to force you to FUCKING UPLOAD THE CHANGES. THEY HAVE TO BE CHANGED. I HIT SAVE. SAVE THE FUCKING CHANGES. SUCK A DONKEY COCK, BLOGGER.

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I'm ready to go back to hand editing html. It's not like anyone comments or reads this. All these wonderful "features" aren't being used by anyone.

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Writer's block isn't what drove me away from posting. It wasn't losing my entire audience. It wasn't even real life intervening. IT WAS EVERY SHITTY CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM I'VE EVER TRIED TO USE.

Somebody call Grant Williams. I'm going back to News Publisher. It's eight years old, stores data in flat files, runs with cgi, and is the most insecure system ever (not counting phpNuke). But it was the only one that ever worked at all.

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