LifeType vs. Serendipity vs. Loudblog vs. Pivot

General Features LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Version
1.2.6
1.1
0.6
1.40.6
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
The LifeType Project
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Gerrit van Aaken
Pivot Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
all
Any
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Definable Questions
User Access Features LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
none
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Undo
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Comment Features LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Workflow LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Content Approval
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
none
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
via RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType Serendipity Loudblog Pivot
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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