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May 14, 2004

MT WTF?

I completely missed this today, but SixApart released Movable Type 3.0 today, along with a new licensing scheme.

Everything's essentially gone from free to $100, unless you run a MT install with one weblog, one author, and on a single proc box - then you can get the free version. oi.

I'm not as upset about this as other folks are (if v.2.64 ain't broke, don't go paying $600 for it.) But it's hard not to expect the erosion of their user base.

I guess I am pretty concerned about it - I mean, MT is pretty much synonymous with self-run blog sites. If more folks switch away, trackbacks become useless. I can't think of a single project that i worked on in the past year where I didn't recommend movable type for the backend. And I mostly work with community groups and fledgling non-profits. There's no way i'm going to tell a group with an annual web budget of $500 that 40% of it has to go to sw. (Hello textpattern, drupal! Nice to meet ya!)

Posted by yatta at May 14, 2004 1:15 AM

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You could meet Wordpress too :)
I wrote a brief howto to help the move, if it happens, check it out on my blog.

Posted by: Carthik at May 14, 2004 5:07 AM

that's funny - i had thought of wp just after pubbing the post. i haven't played with it yet, but the wp posts on your blog have convinced me to try an installation -- especially seeing the fof and wuhwuh stuff. thx!

Posted by: yatta at May 14, 2004 10:46 AM

I strongly recommend Wordpress too. I never installed MT because its shady licensing worried me. Turns out I was right to worry. Anyway, I find Wordpress to be faster and easier to use, plus it supports all the advanced functionality including Trackbacks.

Now if only ReBlog can be ported...

Posted by: Ryan Shaw at May 16, 2004 11:40 AM

>> Now if only ReBlog can be ported...

Check back in a few weeks. ;)

-kc.

Posted by: yatta at May 25, 2004 2:29 PM