Invest not in Moveable Types - monday 2004-11-08 0458 last modified 2004-11-08 0458
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I just spent the better part of a couple hours clearing out a large volume of spam from an MT installation. No indexing by comments? No automated closing of commenting after a certain date? No idea that rebuilding every single page for small changes is not scalable? No guarantee of stable licensing?

I know I'm behind by versions (that one's on purpose), late to the licensing-complaint dance, and not using any plugins, and nobody would (nobody should) use this shoddy software without some major enhancements. More seriously, SixApart, MT's production company, is based on a doomed premise, that consistent profits can be made on producing restrictively licensed software when perfectly viable and, frankly, better working, free options are in abundant existence. If no MT-killer exists now, one could easily be written. I don't see any useful long-term strategy in SixApart's business plan. Wake up and do your due diligence, you lazy business newswriters, SixApart does not deserve your accolades.

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wha?

I've been flirting with the idea of hosting my own site... but after talk like this? nah. :)

christine lieu on November 08, 2004 05:00 PM

I suppose instea...

I suppose instead of complaining about MT I could have extolled the virtues of WordPress, which is pretty close to being an MT-killer. We're using it for Kawika's and my friend Sam's sites. They are all the things MT is not (database backed, GNU licensed, comment indexed administration, and comment blacklisting / approval, amongst other features). Probably the thing they're lacking most is a set of decent looking templates. The default and all the ones I've seen available for free are a far sight uglier than MT's.

Ryan Lee on January 29, 2006 02:36 AM

no gallery

one bad thing about wordpress is that it doesn't come with a photo gallery. from the searching i've done, there isn't a good solution that's easily integrated into wordpress. they all either lack features, or require me to do stuff that i don't know how to do.

fugu on November 26, 2004 06:05 PM

While not having...

While not having a mixed media storage mechanism could be a problem in enlivening posts in a lasting way (no dead images), I don't think it's within the scope of a blog system to supply photo gallery management. They do fit together well, and it would be nice if some better synergy between the two things existed, i.e., install both and hit a button to make them work together.

Ryan Lee on November 30, 2004 06:36 PM

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