Comment from Brendan Falkowski
If you had no pre-existing knowledge of WP, MT, EE, or other publishing tools, which would be the best pick. Assume a well-tuned knowledge of CSS and the expectation to not install a theme. Where do...
View ArticleComment from Mihai Bocsaru
For those of you that would like to evaluate Movable Type without any effort, go and access it here: http://www.movabletype4.org/. Enjoy!
View ArticleComment from Saumendra Swain
Thanks for the analysis done with a great effort. I can now wait for MT 5 / MT 4 stable release to get some great essential features.
View ArticleComment from j. brotherlove
I agree with billg. I've seen quite a bit of discussion by Wordpress users on why they won't be switching. I don't believe the success of MT4 rests in how many Wordpress users switch to use it. All the...
View ArticleComment from billg
Jonathan: I was primarily addressing the comments. It seems as if every time someone updates a blogging tool that isn't WP, we see a lot of people ask "Why bother when there's Wordpress?" MT seems...
View ArticleComment from Jonathan Snook
@billg: it's hard to say whether you're addressing the article or the comments but I'll assume you meant the article. In which case, I'd say that I'm not cheering on one or the other. I tried to look...
View ArticleComment from billg
Why should anyone care if MT4 does or does not convince users of WP or any other piece of code to switch? Why is this such a big deal? Why the juvenile need to irrationally cheer one product and bash...
View ArticleComment from Fitzwilliam Hearst
Just to counter the tide of WordPress fanboyism, I am considering moving to MTOS from it. (License allowing, etc.) It's more out of dissatisfaction with WordPress than from any great delight in...
View ArticleComment from Jermayn Parker
I use WordPress because its free with cpanel and I love it and for me to change it would have to be pretty damn good....
View ArticleComment from Hamish M
I was intrigued when I heard about the MT Open Source Release. I think it's a good move on their part. But it's late. Much too late. And it's going to take a lot more than this to pull me over from...
View ArticleComment from Su
Jonathan: Plugins, yes, but the component concept is new. Have a look at the "General routines" section of Arvind's post for an idea of the difference involved. That example actually argues against the...
View ArticleComment from Melissa
Thanks for taking the time and posting this. I was going to give the Beta a whirl, just to see the "improvements" but I think I'll pass for now. I agree with Matt about it being far too little, far too...
View ArticleComment from Tom
After backing up, I upgraded to MT 4.0b1 from 3.3 and consequently found comment management broken to a certain extent. My site isn't exactly what I'd consider "mission critical", so it's not a huge...
View ArticleComment from Jonathan Snook
@Su: the problem is that plugins (or components) isn't revolutionary or even evolutionary. Plugins have been a feature of MT for some time. While I can appreciate that a framework has been established...
View ArticleComment from M. Jackson Wilkinson
I think you may be a bit quick to dismiss its perl legacy as being a negative. Sure, PHP is more widely-used on the web these days, but I'd actually guess that more people know perl than PHP, given how...
View ArticleComment from Matt
I agree with Montoya. My initial reaction was identical to yours. They really shot themselves in the foot with the whole licensing debacle a few years back and WordPress, et. al. were more than capable...
View ArticleComment from Montoya
I think your quick link was totally warranted and on-point. You shouldn't have caved to all the naysayers ;)
View ArticleComment from Su
One thing to keep in mind is that this is actually a beta, and not what tends to be called one nowadays, eg., "We don't want to commit to a formal release, and putting 'beta' on it means you can't...
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