Scoop is a database-backed weblog management system. It is written in perl, and uses mySQL for the backend database. It allows story posting and submission, threaded discussions, user accounts, story moderation, and a lot of customization.
| Tags | Internet Web Dynamic Content Message Boards Site Management |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD NetBSD Linux Solaris |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases


Changes: Many new features and bugfixes, including archiving, file uploads, macros, more flexible comment ratings, much improved documentation, a search tool for admins, logging of admin actions, better support for sites with closed queues, and improvements to ads and subscriptions.


Changes: This release includes numerous new features and bugfixes, including a dynamic comment mode, a new blocks admin tool, an auto-format posting mode, spell checker, sub-sections, improved op handling, and a cache re-write.


Changes: Many new features, including new site control interface, support for RSS feeds, new Web-based cron system, better user preferences, section-based permissions, clean URLs, and much more in this release. Also many bug fixes and performance improvements have been made.


Changes: A new installer, many security fixes, a new ability to send out site digests daily, weekly, or monthly, and much more.


Changes: Many bugfixes, a security fix in HTML filtering, running as a mod_perl handler instead of under Apache::Registry, no more use of CGI.pm, and a cleaner configuration scheme.
A simple tool for working with MySQL using a Web browser.
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Recent commentsGood Potential - Scalability
This seems to be a pretty cool. Runs DailyKos so must be pretty scalable.
Wordpress can be quite slow once you get over 10,000 visitors a day (2.0 does takes even more queries than ever before to produce a page)
So this is worth a look if you've got a big project happening.
Scoop rules
Scoop rules,
I am running a demo site at crapnews.net and rantmail.com
the real thing is at www.kuro5hin.org
-davidu
Not Abandoned
I had a temporary DSL outage. There will be a real dev site again very soon, as well. Sorry about that.--Rusty