Jlog vs. LifeType vs. Loudblog

General Features Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Version
1.0.2
1.2.6
0.6
Release Date
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Jeena Paradies / team
The LifeType Project
Gerrit van Aaken
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
all
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
Anti-Spam Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Definable Questions
User Access Features Jlog LifeType Loudblog
ACL
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Unknown
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 Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
Post Editing Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
No
Undo
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Comment Features Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
No
Workflow Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Content Approval
No
Plugin
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
Interoperability Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Content Import
none
Content Export
RSS
via RSS
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Yes
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Administration Jlog LifeType Loudblog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Jlog LifeType Loudblog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Jlog LifeType Loudblog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
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