Storytlr joins Sweetcron in the opensourced club

By On December 30, 2009 · 10 Comments

Storytlr: we're now open

Full credit to the guys behind storytlr, they have fully open sourced the storytlr platform in record time under the Apache 2.0 licence.

As promised a while ago, we are open sourcing our platform. A first version is now available at http://storytlr.googlecode.com with a detailed set of instructions on how to install.

With this code, you can host your own storytlr on your own server (or on a shared hosting environment). By default, it is setup as a single user mode, but you can easily change it to a multi user host and therefore reproduce the exact service we are hosting on the current storytlr.com.

If you remember they announced they were shutting down the service a while back, they want to move on to bigger and better things. Funny enough in that period Sweetcron also went open source and the creator moved on to something else. Sweetcron is GNU GPL 3.0 licensed and seems a lot harder to install that Storytlr.

Right now I'm still using Soup.io for ianforrester.org but I am going to install Storytlr and switch it over when I get the chance. I'd also like to do some changes to the code to support APML for one of my projects, I had also considered using storytlr lightly to dynamically pull together BBC backstage media and something very special which I won't reveal yet.

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  • Anonymous

    Hi there. Glad you like the Open Source version of Storytlr. Look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve. Cheers, Alard

  • Anonymous

    Hi there. Glad you like the Open Source version of Storytlr. Look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve. Cheers, Alard

  • alardw

    Hi there. Glad you like the Open Source version of Storytlr. Look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve. Cheers, Alard

  • http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com lefty

    Some minor gotchas I ran into: storytlr is _not_ happy in a subdirectory, it seems to need to be at the root. Make sure you have Zend, mcrypt and curl PHP extensions installed and turn on debug=1 in the config.ini file, or you’ll like be greeted with a blank screen when you start up. Sending Twitter notifications from storytlr seems horribly broken, I’m looking into that…

    • http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/ Ian Forrester

      Yep I think my cron isn’t working too well either right now. I also did move it from a subdirectory to the root in the end

  • http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com lefty

    Some minor gotchas I ran into: storytlr is _not_ happy in a subdirectory, it seems to need to be at the root. Make sure you have Zend, mcrypt and curl PHP extensions installed and turn on debug=1 in the config.ini file, or you'll like be greeted with a blank screen when you start up. Sending Twitter notifications from storytlr seems horribly broken, I'm looking into that…

  • http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/ Ian Forrester

    Yep I think my cron isn't working too well either right now. I also did move it from a subdirectory to the root in the end

  • http://about.me/khurt Khürt Williams

    I see you were successful in getting it working. I am not. This is one of the most poorly documented projects I have ever seen.

  • http://khurt.com/ Khürt

    I see you were successful in getting it working. I am not. This is one of the most poorly documented projects I have ever seen.

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