Gives me the looks and feel of svbtle for reading and posting without needing to abandon WordPress.
[0] https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle [1] http://shkspr.mobi/blog/
I like how easy it is so get started with wordpress (PHP environment + famous simple "installer") and I find it's popularity staggering (very high proportion of ALL new websites)
However, after making custom themes and modules, and trying to hack others, and doing a fairly lengthy performance review I must say I intensely dislike it from a development perspective, particularly the architecture (or comparatively lack of).
I have a vision of a clean, well written and architected MVC blogging platform that is a joy to use for both users and developers.
It would have to be PHP/MySQL (simvla is Rails and unfortunately this just cuts off most of the market), I would use an established framework (CakePHP would be my preference).
I have been debating for about 12 months just writing it (possibly forking wordpress to help the core developers follow my decisions) but I know adoption would be governed by users, and do they want to change? No!
I've almost resigned myself to the fact that no matter how good my intentions, it would just end up another "snail after a storm"
I share your dislikes of Wordpress though, and decided that writing a blogging platform myself was simpler than trying to hack Wordpress into doing what I wanted.