Blogger vs. Geeklog vs. dasBlog vs. Loudblog

General Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Version
N/A
1.8.2
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
0.6
Release Date
N/A
30 Dez 2012
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
2006-12-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Geeklog Team
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Gerrit van Aaken
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GNU version 2
BSD License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
Free
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
Optional
No
Hosting Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Programming Language
N/A
php
asp.net 2.0
PHP
Operating System
N/A
any
Any Windows IIS platform
all
Webserver
N/A
any
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
Yes
No
No
Other
N/A
no
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Akismet Support
N/A
No
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Definable Questions
User Access Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Other Authentication
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Support Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://dasblog.info/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
Books
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
none
Post Editing Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Undo
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Comment Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Patch
No
Google Sitemap
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Workflow Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Content Import
none
BlogML pending
none
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
via RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Geeklog dasBlog Loudblog
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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