----I went through Phorum, Xoops, another I forget its name (some number or something) and then adopted GeekLog - for quite a long time. GL wasn't what I *really* wanted, it was very solid but overly techie and the myriads of counting mechanisms weren't of much benefit.
----After a very brief (very brief indeed, akin to love at first sight!) test I have finally(?)/happily settled on my site-wide use of WordPress. Installing it into an iBay is simplicity in itself. Here its main use is a community type of blog I maintain on behalf of my village.
----It would be fair to say I am not a blogger in the true sense but I have adopted blogging technology as my (text) publishing tool of choice. WordPress is entirely PHP/MySQL (no HTML) and Open Source.
----Robert