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Here are some graphs of Planet Terasi stats. The trend shows that Planet Terasi is getting more hits every month. Note that these graphs are taken today which is only the first week of May, but the bars for May are already almost half of April’s.

By the way, I’m planning to do a facelift for Planet Terasi, hopefully in the near future. No promises and nothing fancy, I just want to make it look nicer to read for people who don’t use RSS aggregators to read Planet Terasi.

I’m also interested in suggestions for other aggregator software like Planet (which is used by Planet Terasi) that supports:

• Blog aggregating (duh!),
• RSS (ideally all versions, but version 1 and 2 at least must be supported),
• Atom (mostly for blogger.com users that don’t have RSS feedburner feeds),
• flexible templates or templating system (ideally),
• can provide blogrolls in either OPML or FOAF or both (ideally),
• can sort entries by timestamp within a date instead of by the order specified in the config file,
• (minor) can make sticky post only to the aggregate blog (e.g. in planet terasi only) (this can be done manually with a flexible templating system, of course).

Planet can fulfill almost all of the above quite nicely (with some minor quirks), I don’t mind if I keep using Planet for Planet Terasi, but I’m just curious if there are better approaches. I’ve tried Drupal to do this, it’s still not very good at this moment, although it works perfectly well for other projects. Suggestions are welcome!

Update: Well, that near future is really near, apparently. I have updated Planet Terasi‘s theme, and I think it looks much better and more usable now than before.

Update: I’ve upgraded Planet Terasi to use the latest version of Planet from Scott’s GNU Arch repository. The empty Atom posts bug is gone now, so feedburner RSS is no longer required. The sort ordering works as I requested above in the new version. And other minor fixes. I can probably stop looking for other aggregating solution now. I can probably hack the script for sticky post that appears in the page and in the feeds as well. Python is really cool.