Habari is young and I expect more and more people will be tempted to try it out so I thought I would launch a little into what has got me to where I am with it.

There are two things that make me love Habari:

I have found that buzz again that was slowly leaching away. The buzz to just code something, to figure something out, or try and do something different. It is new, but easy to get the hand of in both theming and plugin writing. I honestly feel I could do anything with it, and I have some ideas. :-)

The second point is that there is more structure here, and the appearance, if not the fact, of more planning. Habari uses the M-V-C concept and actively promotes it in its documentation:

While you can use any code you like in your templates, you should try to keep the templates as simple as possible. Ideally, complex code should be located in theme.php and the output included in variables, which you simply echo in your template.

Adding new menus is discouraged, but where necessary there is some automation to add it, giving plugin writers more structure and keeping things cleaner as you add more and more functionality. All in all it just feels nice; as if there is a right way to do things. And I like that.

I also can't say enough about the community. I have been tracking mentions of Habari in blogs and other social media and I have seen quite a number of instances where people say that they asked how to accomplish something on the dev-list or on IRC and have been answered with a plugin that solves the problem. I have even had code volunteered to me to improve things I have done (which are still hosted on the wrong blog, doh!!).

It is still new and the community still small, and perhaps this kind of instant reaction will drop off, but to get it now really makes an impact and really drives me toward working more toward the project. In this project I want to help find and fix bugs instead of just building new cool stuff, because that is probably of more value, even if it doesn't help me promote how gosh darned ace I am.

Motivation is an important thing and I have a new found enthusiasm for all my blogs as a result of Habari. Let's just hope I can maintain it.