LifeType vs. Jlog vs. Loudblog

General Features LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Version
1.2.6
1.0.2
0.6
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 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
The LifeType Project
Jeena Paradies / team
Gerrit van Aaken
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
No
System Requirements LifeType Jlog 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 LifeType Jlog 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 LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
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
Definable Questions
User Access Features LifeType Jlog Loudblog
ACL
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Unknown
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 LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
No
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
No
Protected Posts
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
Post Editing LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
No
No
Undo
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Comment Features LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Optional
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
No
Workflow LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Content Approval
Plugin
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
No
Interoperability LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Content Import
none
Content Export
RSS
via RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
No
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 LifeType Jlog Loudblog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType Jlog Loudblog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType Jlog Loudblog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
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