Introduce Yourself

[Nick]

Hi everyone, thanks for coming over to Hotaru.

You must be curious about what Hotaru is and why we're doing it so let me explain by introducing myself. My name's Nick and I'm the founder of JapanSoc.com, a social bookmarking site for Japan-related news and blogs. It was originally built with Pligg, then moved to Social Web CMS, and has since been customized dramatically, leaving me in a bit of a predicament: Do I stick with SWCMS and try to integrate future changes into it, or do I start from scratch and build a completely new CMS, free from the rigid codebase that is holding back further development?

Well, I chose the latter and have thrown myself into this new project called Hotaru CMS. My motivation for working away at this is to eventually move JapanSoc from SWCMS to Hotaru. Therefore, you can expect Hotaru to have a suite of plugins that will give it functionality similar to the other social bookmarking platforms. Of course, other people are welcome to make completely different sites with their own plugins and themes.

Aside from Hotaru, I'm British, but I moved to Japan in 1998 and am a work-at-home dad. Not much else to say really, but please follow my Hotaru blog (http://hotarucms.org/blog.php?u=1) where I'll be posting my thoughts as I work on Hotaru.

Now it's your turn, please introduce yourself! :D

[landshark]

Hey Nick, I'm coming over from SWCMS. I'm currently using SWCMS to run a barely staying alive site and have plans for another social news site local to the state I live in.

I was really excited with SWCMS at first things were moving along nicely then sort of died off.

Hoping this project stays alive, I'm encouraged by the fact that the lead dev is going to be using it on his site which appears to be quite established.

Anyway I'm not a programmer I stumble through code and try to figure things out as I go. Then unfortunately forget what I did a few days later.

anyway glad to be here and will try to be helpful where I can.

[davidshq]

I'm Dave. I was part of the initial SWCMS team and am excited about Hotaru. Nick has been doing a magnificent job thus far. I ran/run a site for Information Technology Professionals - currently built on SWCMS called InformedNetworker.com. Unfortunately, I launched as the economy crash and other obstacles kept me from success - but I've relaunched as a hobby site for now...something I do on nights and weekends. I'm looking forward to switching to Hotaru and beginning to make some code improvements. <g> You can find out just about everything else about me over at davemackey.net.

[JonH]

I'm Jon H. aka Catchpen. I agree with Dave, what Nick has done with Hotaru in the last few months is amazing.
I help out where I can, picking up some skills here and there and then give back what I learned to the open source open source project since that's the way it works :) . So if you think you will be upgrading your Pligg / SWCMS site or starting an entirely new site with Hotaru, I encourage you to stay involved as well!

[firestarman]

Hi, I'm Firestarman. I'm pretty much awesome.
Currently running txj.in (useless)
and toxicj.net (japanese/asian music sharing)

[SoobbyDom]

What's up everyone, I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. Hopefully I posted this in the right section!

[rushnp774]

I'm Kyle, and I have a pretty diverse background of computing, business, and psychology. Over the past few weeks, I've been playing around with the social news site software out there (Pligg, Drigg, Socialweb CMS, etc), and every one of them but Drigg has let me down immensely (too bad Drigg isn't being maintained anymore). Anyway, I found Hotaru, and REALLY want to get involved while it's on the ground level and help make it into the best social news platform that exists. You'll be seeing a lot of me around here.

[hangbowl]

i am new in here. im running www.snurf.in
please visit my site :D

[sharkbyteusa]

Hi, name is Garrett. I'm a (Bio snipped from my twitter account @sharkbyteusa (http://twitter.com/sharkbyteusa)) "Father, Scuba Diver, Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Veteran (USCG), Entrepreneur, Student, Small Business Owner". Looking forward to building my Hotaru site. Checked out Hotaru late last year while evaluating the other alternatives which was a pretty negative experience as I'm sure most of you are aware. Hotaru sounded like it was what I was after but ultimately I decided to hold off until it was out of beta and a RSS importer was built. I'm tired of waiting (for importer) so dove in this week, I'm pleased so far. Just getting my feet wet with my theme, finding my way around, hopefully I'll dive into some plugins soon.

[carlo75]

Hi to all ppl!!!
Glad to see the community growing!

[daveryder]

Hello all, I just wanted to say to Nick and the whole team: y'all have a fantastic project going on here - I love it! Thanks for all the hard work and for putting it out there

It's all just very cool :)

[gibby]

Hi Guys

I'm Gibby an ESL Teacher living and working in Shanghai.

Just got a test site up and will play around for a few days and then report back on what happened.

Looking forward to spending some quality time here...

Gibby

[rushnp774]

Hello all, I just wanted to say to Nick and the whole team: y'all have a fantastic project going on here - I love it! Thanks for all the hard work and for putting it out there

It's all just very cool :)

Welcome Dave! I noticed you're from Catawissa, MO. Where is that? I live in Lee's Summit, just outside of KC. This is a great group of people. Make yourself at home, and ask questions if you need.



Hi Guys

I'm Gibby an ESL Teacher living and working in Shanghai.

Just got a test site up and will play around for a few days and then report back on what happened.

Looking forward to spending some quality time here...

Gibby

Thanks for joining Gibby! Glad to have you aboard.

[JonH]

Welcome Gibby and daveryder. ESL must be a popular trade in Japan wow. Hey Dave I have a black American Strat just like that except it's a lefty. I also just bought a Juno G a workstation few weeks ago, going to attempt some home recording! ..minus the vocals lol.

[carlo75]

Hi guys, welcome Gibby and daveryder!!!

[Ben]

Hey, I'm Ben from the UK. I'm currently a Software Engineering student. I do bits of web development here and there, going to give Hotaru a chance on a few projects I have planned :)

[ties]

I'll also introduce myself, i'm Matthis. It's exactly one month ago when i joined these forums and i've helped some people out here and there.
Im from the Netherlands and study industrial design at my university build some plugins and theme's but they probably still have a lot of bugs
i never have followed any programming classes so i was really suprised what i could do with my home taught php and jquery
i'm trying to set up some sort of freelance webdesign/develop mini-business with some friends to make some money and build a résumé

[carlo75]

Hi Ben, and naturally Matthis welcome aboard!

[Nick]

Hey everyone, thanks for joining the forums and giving Hotaru a go. We hope that once you get the hang of our little CMS, you'll want to use it as the base for all your future sites! :-D To make that easier, please give us feedback on how to improve the documentation (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?481-Documentation-Requests).

[mabujo]

Hi all,

My name is John and I'm another British ex-pat; I run a small web company in France.
I have a few sites running on swcms and pligg and am obviously keen to move them on to a better platform. One swcms site I have in particular is a real pain as it has quite a high user base and has been really straining the VPS. The rest are also spam-magnets!

I've been familiarising myself with hotaru and have liked what I have seen so far, I'm going to be building a few themes first to get the hang of it before I implement hotaru on my sites.

[runnertalk]

Hello everyone,

My name is Patrik and I've been a member here for quite some time now so I thought it might be time to introduce myself.
I'm a student from Sweden and I'm starting out learning programming with my first programming course finished. Hopefully I will soon be able to constribute with plugins to this great CMS.

At the moment I don't run any Hotaru sites but I will soon at runnertalk.net and maybe one more that I have in mind. On runnertalk I first used pligg as CMS but in my opinion Hotaru is way much better, plus as I'm just starting out learning programming it feels better to follow the development the CMS from the beginning as I have done with Hotaru.

[daveryder]

Hi rush - Catawissa is a very small town southwest of St. Louis, but big enough to rate a wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catawissa,_Missouri

I see you're near KC, I bet you're a BBQ expert :) - I'm a pretty mean griller myself IMHO lol

I have to say, I'm working on installing Hotaru on a couple of sites and it's been painless, everything just works which is kind of freaking me out, I'm used to glitches, bugs and the agony of defeat! I'm really impressed with what Nick and you guys have accomplished in so short of time, it's just amazing. I think I'll be going live with a site in about a week, and I'll be sure to let you guys know in case y'all want to check it out, I'm pretty excited about i. If it takes off the way I think (hope) it will it might turn out to be a pretty big thing, which of course will draw a lot of attention to Hotaru: that would be a win/win for everybody :)

[louis]

Hello everyone, my name is Louis (father,geek,n00b) I came across Hotaru CMS just by chance while I was searching for a "Delicious / Scuttle" open source application. I was impressed with the Hotaru demo site and forums and decided to sign up, and give Hotaru a closer look. I'm looking to setup a simple social bookmarking site, not sure Hotaru is for me, but look forward to playing around with this CMS.

/waves to Nick and the Hotaru Community.

[rushnp774]

Welcome Louis, and thanks for joining us! Always great to have new members.

I was in the same boat you were about six months ago when I was looking around for Digg clone scripts, and I stumbled upon Hotaru. I've been here ever since. It's amazing how fast it's improving and how much it's changed since I joined. Scary to think about how good it'll be a year or two from now. Hat tip to Nick!

Enjoy your stay, and ask questions. We're a helpful bunch of people, and with a little time, you'll be a Hotaru CMS expert.

[Nick]

/waves back at Louis and everyone else here :)

[carlo75]

Hi Louis and welcome... after a few try with Hotaru CMS, it will be YOUR social bookmarking site!

[louis]

@rushnp774, Nick, carlo75

Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to trying Hotaru out.

[GoogleBot]

Hi Nick,

Congratulations for this robust and flexible CMS!

I'll give it a try

George

[smiera]

Hi everyone ! I am a new member of Hotarucms family and want to know more about Hotarucms.

[carlo75]

Hi smiera and welcome!

[Bill_C]

Hi everyone, just wanted to say hi. Looking forward to replacing my old pligg site!

[carlo75]

Hi Bill_C, you're welcome!

[narc]

so many Pligg-user. well we have nick. well we have hotaru. well we have pligg2hotaru-plugin :)

ps: still so much work ahead of me. 5 Pligg sites convert and import them into hotaru. 5 custom templates must be edited.

[salsan]

hi all,

Its Salsan Jose from India.

I was struggling with the Pligg to implement some features. But yesterday one of my friend referred this hotaru application. That time itself i have installed and tested it. I did feel like, it is good enough to handle anything. Then i have installed it on my live website: http://www.bookmarks.comn.us/

Let me tell you a special thanks for the application. :cool:

[ebatakzz]

Hi , I am Ebatakzz .
HotaruCMS operates in Japanese !!!
I want to advertise HotaruCMS for OTAKU and the volunteer.
Thank you.

[Hobbis]

Hi ebatakzz! Welcome aboard!:)

[gaurangi.tech]

Hi All

I am Chandan Singh From India, I am Working as a Software Developer. I have one Growing CSM Site Using Pligg http://iedig.com, and When I see Hotaru and all features of Hotaru again i decide to launch one another site using Hotaru. Currently I am Customize one template for my Hotaru site. After Launch I will Inform all of you.

Thanks

[i4ever]

Hi!
I'm Madalin and I discovered recently Hotaru CMS.

[Hobbis]

Hi Madalin:) Nice to meet you here and a Happy New Year:)

[WimTibackx]

Hi,

I'm Wim Tibackx, 17 yr. old student from Belgium. I came across Hotaru CMS searching for a bare-bones cms after getting disappointed by WordPress' bad user management. I'm currently trying to make my first plugins for a website assignment for my thesis. Hotaru looks very promising. I was in fact shocked by the low number of clean cms'. It seems like much of them like to enforce their own contenttypes for some reason. I was already planning to write an own cms, but as it looks now, I'll just use Hotaru instead.

Looking forward to more Hotaru magic!

[Hobbis]

Hi WimTibackx,

Welcome here and thank you for your warm words about Hotaru. Have nice time with it:)

[wopwops]

Hello, I'm Kevin. I'm a full time blogger.

I was desperate to get away from Reddit. My site is news driven and I was grudgingly using a subreddit to give my readers a social news capability. (Reddit has a lot of problems.) Anyway, there is no good solution that's integrated with WordPress, so I set up a dedicated site with Hotaru and Yonda. My users have jumped right in and are actively using the site.

I'm really surprised by how few options there are in this space. I'm glad that I was able to find Hotaru.

[tlowing]

Hi Nick,

My name is Trevor. I was a developer (lots of PHP) for about a decade but I do project management work now. I'm using Hotaru to put together a current events blog. So far, so good. I'm looking for a plugin to post hotaru submissions toto other social networking sites and also looking for the option to auto-post admin posts to the front page.

Thanks,

Trevor

[drvosjeca]

Hi... My name is Dejan and i come from small country Slovenia. I love working on websites and testing out new things. I was looking for something to create some bookmarking/submitting site and was thinking about Plig...after surfing and searching on google i found this alternative to Pligg named "Hotaru". I said "I must try this". For now im just discovering what can be done with it... It seems nice thing with potencial.

Any way, im glad to found it and to be here :)

[yudhis97]

Hello all,

I am Yudhistira From Indonesia, I am Working as a internet publisher. I am a new member of Hotarucms and want to know more about Hotarucms. I have installed it on my live website: http://furniit.com

[phoenixstudio]

Hi..

my internet name is phoenixstudio.I am from Malaysia.
im now working on indexing android post using HotaruCMS.
i think i will try my best to contribute here.=)

[lakeishamarsh]

Hello Everybody

[jalame]

Only I want to be grateful for his great work to the developers of hotaru. I they present the project that I have created thanks to this great tool. Thank you.

http://jalame.com

[DJWallet]

Hi! I'm a graphic designer, recently working alot on Web. I'm a newbie to all this stuff, but I think I'm learning quite fast. I started this website (www.linkdump.co (http://linkdump.co))a few days ago and I'm mostly developing it for my own fun and learning experience. This is my first attempt to make anything like that, and I'm really liking it.

In short: Hotaru is awesome!

[mrchucky]

Hi Nick and everyone. I'm Nizam and new to the community. I'm planning to create a bookmarking site with Hotaru later, and this is the main reason I'm here. Hope to learn more in here. Can you guys show me the famous bookmarking site using hotaru cms please. May I know what script does buzzfeed.com use?

[amrik]

Hi, My name is Amrik Virdi. I am founder of MonetizeBlogging.com.
Glad to see you all.

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