WebKittyn Warbles
Sunday, January 22, 2006
I’ve Got an Itch
I've been dying for the past week to switch this site over to Expression Engine.
Movable Type lost some of its luster for me with 3.2 and their new attitude of 'big business.' I was with them before they got big and it's been bad juju watching as their care for the individual lessened and the corporate mentality emerged. Accusing me of license violation was the start, the rest came later. They turned MT into an extension of livejournal and type pad and made it unnecessarily complicated. Feh.
I've played around with EE and found it does more than MT does without spending hours tweaking templates. This is good juju. Importing everything from here to there is going to be a bitch with butter but lucky for me, the Seal uttered those fateful words, "let me know if you need help." D O N E. Hello, I haven't started yet and I need help.
I'm just waiting for the BoB Awards to finish. There are 10 points for design and 10 more for navigation, last thing I need to do is start one of my nefarious template moves in the middle of the judging.
Soon, Bushka. Soon.
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While I do understand (and sympathize with) your frustration with the licensing discussion around BoR, I’m curious about the rest of your assessment of MT.
For example, the “big business” thing seems a bit off, given that we’ve always had a free version of MT and a really active volunteer community, while EE has only *just* decided to add a free version. On the other side, I don’t think MT’s an extension of LJ or TypePad at all, given how we’ve focused a lot on making everything in MT run totally on its own.
We’re adding a lot of interesting technology to MT this year, starting next month, and I think you’ll be excited to see what we’re doing. I hope you’ll give us the chance to show you what we’ve got. Honestly, I think a lot of platforms have a community that will focus a lot of attention on getting new members, but they don’t always invest as much in making sure current users have compelling reasons to keep working on their blogs.
Between thinks like our affiliate program, which pays you for recommending blogging tools to your readers, to things like our Professional Network community which can help you take advantage of your skills with blogs, MT can really grow with you in the future.
Anil Dash on 01/23 at 03:56 AM -
I got most upset when MT in it’s great wisdom of upgrading versions, wrote code that, from version 3.1x above 3.17 could no longer blog wirelessly from a PDA (Pocket PC using Pocket MSIE). This annoyed me. Blogging wirelessly (moblogging) was usually the only time I had time to blog. Now I have to email my blogs to myself and hope to get time at home to transfer it. Sometimes improvements make things harder. I’ll agree with WK on that.
Darkstar on 01/23 at 11:19 PM
