Lyceum: Another Multi-User WP?
March 1, 2006I just saw at Boingboing a link to Lyceum, “a powerful and easy to use multi-blog WordPress that could be used for installations with 2 or 200,000 blogs.” Given that WordPress is free/open source, anyone is free to use and change the code, and that’s what the Lyceum team did.
My immediate question is: how does Lyceum relate to WPMU? In particular, why do Lyceum? Why use it, rather than WPMU? How does the multi-user-ness of Lyceum differ from that of WPMU?
March 1st, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Hi. I’m the developer of Lyceum.
The main difference between Lyceum and MU is the database schema. MU creates a set of tables, I believe 8 or 9, for each blog in a system. Lyceum uses a fixed number of tables for the entire system.
Another difference is that in Lyceum, each blog can turn (pre-aproved, admin-installed) plugins on and off as they like. (Does MU have this now? It didn’t have this the last time I looked at it several months ago)
We’ve also made a smattering of security and performance tweaks.
I should probably address this in the FAQ.
Thanks for your interest, let me know if you have any more questions.
March 1st, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Thanks, John, for your rapid response here.
March 1st, 2006 at 3:57 pm
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March 1st, 2006 at 7:34 pm
I would be interested in hearing more about the security and performance tweaks. I didn’t see anything apparent in the code.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:52 am
Yes, I would also be interested in hearing a bit more about the security and performance tweaks. I spent a solid month looking for ways to tweak WPMU for performance and there really aren’t any without compromising security.
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I am going to try both, however when I talk to John Bachir, the Lyceum is not supporting the subdomain yet.
I think he should look into it fast , as it is much prefered by bloggers
April 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Lyceum now support subdomains. :)
April 17th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
I’m looking for a multi-user blog system if possible based on WP. Today I found WPMU and Lyceum. Without having installed none of them I would start by Lyceum because the smaller number of tables for all the blogs.
Having 8 or 9 tables per blog it will end with hundreds of tables.
I wonder how wordpress.com manages that :)
Thanks,
April 17th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
wordpress.com uses pretty much the same table structure as wpmu. They may have even added a few tables per blog/user.
May 11th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Well,
If wp.com uses 8/9 table per blog it should have several million table in the database. How does it able to manage in MySQL?
Does it uses MySQL in backend?
-tareque
May 11th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
wp.com runs off of MANY databases.
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May 23rd, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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May 31st, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Is there a list of Lyceum blog hosts?
May 31st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Good idea! I just made one:
http://wiki.lyceum.ibiblio.org/index.php/Featured_Lyceum_Installations
May 31st, 2006 at 6:38 pm
That’s not much of a list with only one blog host :)
May 31st, 2006 at 10:25 pm
John, I think that the list is a good idea – thanks for posting the link here.
Andrew – the one who runs this blog, not the developer also called Andrew, who has also commented on this thread.
June 15th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Where did Lyceum go? I am getting a little tired of trying to figure out the latest wordpress mu build with it’s security risks. Very unstable!
June 15th, 2006 at 11:27 am
I’m not sure what you mean by “Where did Lyceum go?” I’ve checked some of the above Lyceum-related links, and they seem to work. As for the WPMU build questions, I’ll leave them to the forums.