Welcome to Lyceum and the new Lyceum blog/webpage!
Lyceum was originally conceived in a very different form 3 years ago as a community-blogosphere-insta-generator. Several staff and identity rotations later, we set forth in the middle of 2005 to make a powerful and easy to use multi-blog WordPress that could be used for installations with 2 or 200,000 blogs. Users will find the familiar WordPress features and interface that they know and love, and administrators will have the architecture and tools that they need to manage their blog service.
We’ve given a lot of thought to performance, security, and ease of managability. We are really proud of what we’ve come up with, and we are excited to show others.
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Congratulations!
By mike on 03.01.06 9:48 am | Permalink
I’m surprised this appears so suddenly, congrats on taking the wordpress multi-user code and showing what can be spun out.
I was considering mu for a company site, but you’re enthusiasm convinced me to try Lyceum instead.
By Tanner on 03.01.06 12:56 pm | Permalink
Installation was a great success, but after login there was nothing to further. I can’t connect to the admin section.
By Harry on 03.01.06 4:18 pm | Permalink
feel free to contact me on IM with support requests:
http://johnjosephbachir.org/contact_information.html
By John on 03.01.06 4:26 pm | Permalink
have you added to msn.
thanks.
By Harry on 03.01.06 4:50 pm | Permalink
I copied the files up changed permissions and poof- all white page. I have php 4.4 so maybe I am not compatible. It definitely seems that way and old wordpressMU does work.
I think the instructions need some clarifying like: copy all the files to here-
right now it says change permissions on src/lyceum/ ect but then you are suppose to go to example.com/lyceum/wp-admin/install.php - but its in example.com/src/lyceum/wp-admin/install.php ?!?
By mconnors on 03.01.06 7:08 pm | Permalink
thanks for the feedback. we are working on better documentation, it should be out in a day or two.
By John on 03.01.06 7:20 pm | Permalink
I’ll be following this with interest, for a community blog, Lower East Side, New York. This is just what we have been hoping for - Wordpress to the max!
By DPentecost on 03.01.06 8:47 pm | Permalink
[...] Lyceum’s St David’s Day was a good one. There was an Announcement in BoingBoing with several great blog entries and comments including one from WordPress MultiUser meister Matt Mullenweg. Lyceum was in the Top 5 of del.icio.us popular earlier today and now has over 115 del.icio.us entries. We have 135 blogs on the Lyceum Demo instance now (March 1, 2006 at 22:30), Great work by JJB, Fred and the other Lyceum folks. [...]
By The Real Paul Jones » Lyceum Announcement Day on 03.01.06 10:33 pm | Permalink
Wouldn’t it be possible to set up an instance of this on ibiblio.org to act as a free blogging service? There’s droves of people who have outgrown Blogger and are looking for something more competent.
By Youssef Assad on 03.02.06 2:14 am | Permalink
To only thing where I came on is the portal.php.
When I register a blog, its make one (1) but I can’t do more than that. So something is not working for me…
By Harry on 03.02.06 7:38 am | Permalink
After reading Matt Mullenweg post about Lyceum and MU/Wordpress I’d like to see a real side by side comparison between the two. It would be great if the folks at Lyceum did this and put it on their site. I’m not suggesting a adversarial stance but a simple clear the air statement. If the facts aren’t put up fiction will rule.
By Brian R. on 03.02.06 11:32 am | Permalink
[...] The Lyceum launch yesterday went well. It’s great to finally get the word out and get some feedback. The day started out low with a rejected Slashdot submission. But an hour later, the story was accepted on Boing Boing! Yes! Some other folks blogged us, including WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, who talked about why they went with the N-tables-per-blog database architecture for WordPress MU. I got lots of feedback and questions via email, IRC, tickets, and the blog. [...]
By The Lyceum Project » Lyceum launch on 03.02.06 11:36 am | Permalink
After the nightley update the system is working like a sun. We will wait for the next coming code updates before set it online.
Good Job Guys!!!!
By Harry on 03.04.06 9:32 am | Permalink
Hello. I’ve been searching for an elegant multi-blog multi-user solution. I’ve tried the few out there, and none had the class of WordPress. With this now available, I’m quite excited and am setting it up on my test server.
One issue, though. I happen to have a site that is CMS-driven with a pre-existing user database. Are there plans for Lyceum to handle such an environment (i.e., synch)?
By Carol on 03.19.06 12:47 pm | Permalink
Yes, through an API and/or pluggable functionality, we hope to make lyceum compatible with the user namespaces and login logic of other systems, in particular with Drupal.
When this will happen is completely uncertain at this point. Right now I am focusing on making Lyceum stable by early to mid April.
By John on 03.19.06 12:58 pm | Permalink
I only stumbled upon lyceum a few minutes ago googling for help with wpmu and ended up here.
This is what I wanna do and would appreciate any feedback whether lyceum is a better fit for my needs than wpmu is…
I’ll use ‘aa.org’ as the sample domain to help illustrate:
Currently I have ‘aa.org’ and ‘www.aa.org’ resolving to a BLANK page.
I wish to however use ‘www.____.aa.org’ where the ‘____’ would be a HARDCODED subdomain pointed to a subdirectory like ‘ww.aa.org/lycuem/_____’ etc.
I need to create just about 400 subsites using subdomains, preferably with admin oversight with from a single super or overall admin board/page.
My wish is to NOT create a free blogging service with open registration.
This would be 400 blogs on 400 subdomains off of a main domain.
I already have close to a thousand hardcoded subdomains pointing to various places on my server.
Hence the virtual re-direction of wpmu has me puzzled at the moment…
I hope my question and any feedback answers may help others.
Thanks in advance.
By HiMY SYeD on 03.29.06 6:26 pm | Permalink
Hi. Yes, you can make that work, if I understand you correctly. The best place to get questions answered is on the mailing lists or IRC channel:
http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/support
-jjb
By John on 03.29.06 6:36 pm | Permalink
Okay…I joined the user mailing list and cut and pasted my above question…and emailed it to the users list but don’t yet see it in my inbox?
Any chance Lyceum will have a regular message board instead of the mailing list?
I ain’t the hacker kind of persona, I don’t use irc. Message boards or comment conversations like this are how I learn. I can’t speak for others, but perhaps I ain’t the only potential lyceum user in the same situation as me.
I simply wanna set up a ridiculous number of weblogs and wish to not manually install and manually update each of those manually with every new version upgrade.
Thanks again.
By HiMY SYeD on 03.29.06 7:33 pm | Permalink
Do you have a forums up already for more support and discussions? and can you provide me with realtime users of lyceum?
By Isulong Seoph on 06.10.06 12:02 pm | Permalink
Why my blog ( lyceum based) after I summit a comment it takes the user to the portal page
Thanks
By Pat on 09.06.06 7:27 pm | Permalink
yes have a forum better that mailing list
Thanks
By Pat on 09.08.06 12:35 am | Permalink
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