Comments on: MT: Jumping the Shark?

By: Boyd

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

I've been too lazy to switch from Blogger, and now they're much closer to what I'd like to see (but not quite there yet).

As it stands now, if I were to switch, it would be to WordPress. But as the International President of Procrastinators Anonymous, it may be a while before that happens.

By: OF Jay

OF Jay — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Doc, you'll likely trim off two thirds of your disc space usage considering the only static files you would be keeping ar ethe images you host. It's a beautiful thing... (and as one of the early adopters of WP and one of its most vigorous pimps, I couldn't help but grin over 6A's shooting itself in both feet.)

By: dw

dw — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

HostingMatters has reversed its original "go with another platform." The problem was with the MT3's odd "one installation per CPU" requirement. HM's servers has no single CPU servers. MT pulled the idiotic clause from the license yesterday. I'm waiting to see. I'm a beta tester for MT3, but I have a free ExpressionEngine package and Wordpress ready for testing... just in case.

By: Kate

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

Tangential point: When something as boring and geeky as "MT" can "jump the shark", is it not a signal that "jump the shark" has now jumped the shark?

By: mpt

mpt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Sorry Kate, the act of saying that jumping the shark has jumped the shark has jumped the shark.

By: Kate

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

I'm soooo out of the loop.

By: keith taylor

keith taylor — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I've never understood everyone's problem with Blogger. Sure, it's basic as hell and you can't host images and files and what not, but as long as I can put words from my brain onto my site for free then there's no problem.

By: James Joyner

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

Keith,

When I was on BlogSpot in early 2003,it was simply awful. It was down half the time and there were all sorts of problems with it. Plus, the lack of inline comments, screwed up archives, etc. It has been better more recently after some pretty serious upgrades, but it's still not as robust as a blog on your own host.

By: Robin

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

The difference in WordPress and Moveabletype is simple; dynamic pages vs. static pages. MT, at least through v. 2.661, simply doesn't compare (except cosmetically).

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

All MT all the Time More bad news for Movable Type: McGehee has problems installing MT 3.0. And Hosting Matters has a long discussion thread about the new release. They've got mixed feelings, as best I can read. And the "No one under 13" restriction...

By: Zygote-Design

Zygote-Design — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Moving Away From Movable Type
Joyner at OTB is talking about the Movable Typle licensing fiasco wondering if it's jumped the shark.

McGehee, who has been tsking people about overreacting to the new MT, basically blowed up his site real good using the new Movable Type.

Kell...

By: hard times

hard times — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

WordPress Resources
Since there's still lots of turmoil out there about Movable Type's current problems, I thought I'd round up a few resources available to you if you want to learn more about WordPress, or want to give it a try.

The WordPress Wiki is a nice r...

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