I think it has poor session management. I kept getting logged out after a minute or so. Users cannot be deleted. There are links in the admin section that take you straight to a 500 error. The Mephisto team is working on an Assets menu but for now it's just an error-generator. The settings menu is really counter-intuitive. There are buttons on the top to take you to different parts of the menu but they're only linked to anchors within the current page - and it's a really small page. One of the sections doesn't even exist on the page.

So it's a no-go for me right now. I'm gonna leave in installed (you're welcome to check it out: http://6brand.com/hoopla) but it may not be usable for some time.

• Chris said: Liquid homepage: http://home.leetsoft.com/liquid
• Danger said: I don't know why I couldn't find that but thanks Chris!
• rick said: 'It can’t be installed in a subdirectory' That's a rails problem, not a Mephisto problem necessarily. I'd love it if someone could solve it though. I decided not to allow user deletions because I didn't want to deal with things like articles pointing to missing users. Perhaps we'll end up hiding disabled users from the UI at some point. Yes, the UI is a little incomplete. It's still technically alpha after all. Mephisto 1.0 will be the complete, no-shit, real deal though. Thanks for the feedback!
• rick said: 'It can’t be installed in a subdirectory' That's a rails problem, not a Mephisto problem necessarily. I'd love it if someone could solve it though. I decided not to allow user deletions because I didn't want to deal with things like articles pointing to missing users. Perhaps we'll end up hiding disabled users from the UI at some point. Yes, the UI is a little incomplete. It's still technically alpha after all. Mephisto 1.0 will be the complete, no-shit, real deal though. Thanks for the feedback!
• rick said: Ugh, bit by the double post bug! Sorry! Two more things: rake db:bootstrap is a task I added to load the schema and insert fixture data (default user, site, section, etc) in a single step. Still, I think rake db:schema:load should be the standard install step if you're not using rake db:bootstrap (though, I'll be adding it for Rails 1.2). Using migrations from revision 1 wasn't an established habit of mine back when I started Mephisto in December, so the first migration isn't the initial. Also, my last name is Olson, not like the Olsen twins :)
• Danger said: My bad about screwing up your last name Rick, I'll go fix that! Rereading my post I'm not sure I communicated that I love where Mephisto is going. It's just that there's not a lot out there about it other than "it rules" so I didn't realize until too late that it was still alpha. I intend to continue to test it and use it - right on through to the no-shit, super-awesome 1.0 release and beyond. I'd like to look into the subdirectory issue. It didn't seem to be a massive problem, just in a few key areas of linking to resources. I might play around and see what it would take to fix that. Thanks for the follow-up Rick!

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