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Radio (and Frontier) are the swiss army knives of weblogs 
- Version: 8.1, 2/3/2009 11:05AM PST
mickey17
cbriggs: Thankyou, that… - Version: 8.0.9b2, 3/13/2003 05:39AM PST
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Tyaris Major
explains a whole mess of stuff. I couldn't work out why it kept wanting to go out on the internet, when I just wanted to post stuff to my own (local) server. Why would I want Userland to host my blog? It's not like Blogger who are a company specially dedicated to the practice - Userland is just a software company. And if it is hosted by them, why does it have its own built-in web server (on port 5335)? Just to configure it? That seems extremely dumb to me. They've gone to the trouble to build a web server into it - ferchrustsake, run it off there, or run it off the proper built-in Mac OS X web server (ie: apache). Mac users are known for not bothering to read the doco, but when you claim something is easy to use, you better make sure it is or at least back up the claim with reasonable doco. When I couldn't figure it out just by fiddling, I specifically tried to use the doco and got nowhere. Obviously they're not interested in having me as a customer.
I don't like… - Version: 8.0.9b2, 12/17/2002 08:48AM PST
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gaffer
it the way i don't like microsoft-products: they get unreliable over time. I like it because if you follow Radio and Dave Winer, you learn a lot about the web and connecting information with eachother.
I've been using… - Version: 8.0.9b2, 12/16/2002 08:04PM PST
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macfixit31
Radio for a few iterations. While the online documentation is more for humor than in-depth help, the online usergroup assistance came to my aid with the minor hicccups that I had. Had no problem putting up a blog, first on the Userland server, then switching over to one of my own servers. Obviously, some people don't bother seeing how easy that is to do. And you need to understand that Radio runs locally on your machine, and when you make changes it uploads to your server. So when you start the app it should load the local host into your browser. Helps to have two browser windows open....your local host and the website. While I have some issues with the flexibility of the styles (helps to know some xml and html), if you just want to publish easily from one machine it's worth the price. I've tried to use some other blog tools but found this to be the one that I liked the most.
If you read… - Version: 8.0.9b2, 12/16/2002 03:03PM PST
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MacHead
the comments along with these 4 star ratings, it is really a laugh. A crap product, with poor documentation, and non-existent support continues to rate 4 stars? I don't think so!
Radio seems a… - Version: 8.0.9b2, 12/16/2002 10:38AM PST
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alajuela
bit flaky when it comes to non-IE browsers. I also use Chimera, and every time I install a Radio update, Radio briefly respects my use of Chimera, but that quickly goes away. Still, I love this app.
I like it… - Version: 8.0.9b1, 12/8/2002 07:49AM PST
dcase
- very easy to use and configure. But how do you get it to stop using Explorer - I want it to launch Chimera instead...?
The latest version… - Version: 8.0.9b1, 12/8/2002 04:54AM PST
stam
does appear buggy with OS X 10.2.2. The webserver is sluggish, when it even works. Hopefully, this beta will be sorted out soon. ***cbriggs*** The problem with Radio (and Frontier) is that it's incredibly powerful, but it's documentation and user interface stink. However, you can EASILY set it up to upload to a different server than the Userland community server by visiting the FTP OPTION, in the PREFERENCES. As for "knowing" that you had to point your browser to 127.0.0.1:5335, all you had to do is to select "Home page" from the "Local pages" from the radio menu. In fact this loads automatically a few seconds after radio is started anyway, so i fail to see the problem. If you really think that Radio is a "piece of crap" then maybe you should check out the other alternatives (which almost all involve complicated cgi-bins or PHP scripts).
Like I said.… - Version: 8.0.9b1, 12/7/2002 01:48AM PST
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cbriggs
A piece of crap. How was I meant to know you had to point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:5335/? I just wanted to start a blog like Tyaris. What I've now realised is that this would be hosted on Userland servers rather than a server of my choice. No thanks.
After you start… - Version: 8.0.9b1, 12/6/2002 08:55PM PST
mike3k
up Radio Userland, go to http://127.0.0.1:5335/ and you can configure it from your web browser. Subscribe to your favorite news sources, and if you find something you want to add to your weblog, click the post button for it. In the home page you can also create new entries. There's an active discussion group at radio.userland.com where you can ask questions or get help.
So why does anyone still use them? Because they're powerful, more-so than any CMSs currently available. The built-in language makes it possible for you to do whatever you want with your web pages. That is, once you've slogged your way through the machinations needed to get things working. But once that's done it's easy to create new sites and update existing sites. I still use it (almost daily).
When something better comes out I'll jump ship, as will the last few remaining users. (Or, as a better legacy to Dave Winer, perhaps they'll make it a **complete** open source product for the ages. The Frontier kernel may be found at frontierkernel.org.) When a company can't be bothered to update web pages, documentation, respond to email, or update the product in two years it's a bit of a hint.
Not bitter at all, and would jump with joy if Radio & Frontier were give a bit of TLC, but it's not going to happen. Dave's spending his legacy 140 characters at a time on Twitter, and whatever is left of Userland is in the bunker, in an undisclosed location. So very sad for one of the birthplaces of the modern web.