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First of all, a quick quote from a couple of months ago, when I wrote about the multi-contributor feature that I added into Pebble.

So, while I'm not planning on implementing a multi-user blog, such as Roller or Blojsom, having the ability to have more than one contributor is useful.

In truth, I really wasn't planning to implement the ability to support multiple blogs from the same Pebble instance because I didn't think that anybody would want/need it. However, from some of the e-mails I've received, it seems as if people have installed Pebble for themselves and then wanted to set up blogs for their friends on the same box. With the current version of Pebble, this means running another instance of the webapp. The benefits of hosting more than one blog from a single webapp are better maintenance and a smaller overall memory usage.

So, for everybody that wanted multi-user Pebble, you'll be pleased to know that it'll be in the 1.4 release. All the code is checked in and I'm running the current CVS HEAD at the moment, albeit in single user mode where Pebble is configured to host only a single blog. BTW, apologies if you had problems accessing this site yesterday - a combination of some dodgy HTML that MS IE didn't like and my host being offline. I think this will be the final feature that I'm going to add before a 1.4 release but I need to do some more testing yet. If you spot any problems, please just drop me a mail or leave a comment.