Erick Erickson of Redstate has a post up on the front-page which offers a glimpse at the next Redstate.com (version 3.0) which is said to launch in February.
Perhaps most interesting to the readers of this space, Erick is shifting the platform away from Drupal, an open-source platform, to a customized, proprietary solution. UPDATE: Erick tells me that it will be a custom CMS built in Django.
In February, we will be launching RedState v.3.0 – a complete website overhaul that, instead of relying on third-party providers like Scoop or Drupal, will this time be our own specially-created platform designed to give us all the capabilities, power and independence to serve you, our readers with everything you want and deserve.
Here are just a few of the features that we'll be adding to our website – or bringing back by popular demand:
★ improved tools for state and local blogging
★ online activism channels
★ enhanced social networking
★ a conservative job/volunteer board
★ special tools for easier posting
★ tools for tracking new comments and total comments
★ user access to comments
★ ability to track recent activity on the site
Ah yeah... "Improved tools for state and local blogging..." and just in time for the 2008 election cycle. I likey.
So how are they going to pay for the additional software?
Erick asks the community to help pitch in $25,000 for the re-launch and looking at the comments, it looks like the community is doing just that.
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He's doing it the hard way
Why didn't Erick take Markos Moulitsas' offer to help him with Scoop? Would have saved him a lot of time and money, and obviously Markos knows how to make it work.
I guess it would have prevented him from being the "victim" of the evil liberals, whose software has a bias against conservatives.
Does Erick understand what a laughingstock his ineptitude has made him in the blogosphere? He might as well title his site, "Conservatives are incompetent."
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