Comments on: Movable Type $3.0

By: sean

sean — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I have a feeling that people will treat this like the Win 95 -> Win ME upgrade. With a big shrug. So far, I haven't seen anything that would make the upgrade worthwhile. Their comment registration scheme, aka TypeKey, doesn't really sound all that great. I'll stick with 2.661 and MT-Blacklist.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I don't use MT and haven't examined its code, but some software developers I respect have disagreed with your statement that MT is well written software. And Kevin's experience over the past couple of days does seem to expose a few cracks.

By: pennywit

pennywit — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

As I understand it, a number of "free software" companies make their money through support services and by creating customized versions of their software for specific clients.

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By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I'm not seeing anything that threatens to cost me a dime. In two years (sometime next week) of using MT I've never had an issue that required tech support from SixApart. I'm running only one blog and the only actual guest blogger is my wife. And anyway, this is the "Developer Edition," not the general release. People who plan to dump MT because of strings on an edition they wouldn't be using anyway, are kinda jumping the gun.

By: Skillzy

Skillzy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I think a lot of people were sitting on the fence, waiting for some sort of motivation to try somthing besides MT. And I think this gave them a reason. Sixapart either overestimated their users' devotion to them, or underestimated the competition. Whatever the reality of the new plan, they did a terrible job of handling the perception of the changes in the community.

By: Janet L

Janet L — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

If you are looking for a new system, check out Expression Engine, the pmachine.com folks announced today they are giving away 1,000 copies. I am dumping my MT install and going with it!

By: Carthik

Carthik — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I moved to WordPress a few months ago, and it was the best thing that happened to my blog. I wrote a How To move from Movable Type to WordPress over at my blog, which might be of interest to you. WordPress lets me do everything MT did, and the support and user community positively rock!

By: Robert Prather

Robert Prather — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I believe Carthik is overstating things a bit on WP. I abandoned MT before 3.0 was released -- though I had read some bad reviews -- because the static pages and rebuilds were killing me. I wouldn't mind paying for MT if it weren't such a pain to deal with the rebuilding process.

WP has it's weaknesses in the feature department, though they are not that bad. The thing I miss most is my inline comments and trackbacks.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Robert,

Yep--I'd miss those as well. I'll likely keep what I've got until WordPress upgrades or MT relents to the pressure.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I'm going to figure out how to put inline comments in Wordpress. If someone hasn't done a plugin for it already. It shouldn't be that difficult. I assume you mean you miss MT's autofind on the trackbacks? I've had that turned off since day one because it kept re-pinging people every time I edited or updated a post. So I won't miss it at all. WP can do trackbacks/pings. One thing I will say is that of all the blogging software I've ever installed it is the only one that makes me chuckle while I'm installing it.

By: Signifying Nothing

Signifying Nothing — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

No comment
Will Baude continues to justify Crescat Sententia‘s “No Comments” policy, for essentially the same reason that SN doesn’t carry comments. Well, that and the fact I don’t have the Copious Free Time™ necessary to remov...

By: Insults Unpunished

Insults Unpunished — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

MT 3.0 And WordPress
I've been bouncing around the blogosphere and making comments since the new version of MT came out and thought I would provide a compilation. From Kathy's site:MT 3.0 notwithstanding, I had to ditch MT because of the static pages and the rebuild...

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