There is an incredible amount of raging comments and trackbacks about the way SixApart decided to lead Movable Type to. Everyone are going crazy, it makes me think that people are to be forced to pay for the new version or to use something else.
I’m gonna use something else. It’s called MT 2.661 and it serves me pretty good.
There are folks having dozens of authors and blogs running on MT 2.x. Who the hell forces you to change it? If it served you fine until now, why change it? If it didn’t, why haven’t you changed it earlier?
It’s ridiculous.
All the best to SixApart. It’s their software, their money, their fortune (or not).
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!
The carrots to move forward would be a better system for dealing with comment spam and a massively revamped engine that doesn’t have the performance bottlenecks of the current product.
But yeah, I’ve got no plans to move forward. Especially since there isn’t any option to do so for users like me with 39 users and 13 blogs.
Thanks Carthik, I have it bookmarked but I’m still pretty happy with MT. I have it working as I need, at the moment. If that changes, I’ll check my options and your experience would then prove valuable.
Michael, I see that you don’t have an option to upgrade and with such amount of data it would be real pain to switch to some other tool.
Me, I find that rebuilding of the files requires a strong computer. Unfortunatelly for me, I have it running on the company machine that is not very strong (kind of left in the corner) and usually used by employees for private needs (like I use it for my blog).
However, I still don’t have big traffic so I get along. For you, perfomance improvement can be a big carrot.
Additionally, I think that the fact that even the most expensive licence option has limits is…err, dumb. Usually that is reserved for unlimited. I mean — why limit the actual use of your product? I have a feeling that the pricing chart will change in the future and that this was simply a test. Not very well executed though.
Thing that annoyes me in the whole outcry is that a rare few are asking: Ok, what will you offer for that price? Questions like…
Major fealing is that people are pissed because their favourite toy is not free anymore. Oh well. I develop and support few scripts and CSS techniques here and I know that it takes time and effort. I’m way behind with updates because I do payed projects for living.
I can only imagine what it’s like for publishing platform, since that is what they do for living.