Comments on: Movable Type goes 3.0, farts in your general direction

By: Lelia Katherine Thomas

Lelia Katherine Thomas — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:53:39 +0000

I sympathize. I remember trying out MT and nearly gagging. It was disorganized, too, too, too bloated, and then it started wanting payments.

Don’t get me wrong. I understand why developers move to pricing scripts. Scripting isn’t easy, and what was new and great this month may not be good for the next month; development is time consuming. Nevertheless, one thing that really, really pisses me off is when a company doesn’t just come out and be honest.

Let’s all be truthful. Before you ever make it ‘big’ with your company and your product, you know if you’ll ever be asking money for it. Might as well start out like that, I think, rather than throwing it on all the dedicated users you’ve had. You know from the beginning whether you’re going to be a staunch supporter of open source software and scripting or just another company.

I guess MT has seen that and decided to do this free version again (they had removed the old, free version, right?–I stopped keeping up, really).

WordPress forever, I say.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 14 May 2004 23:02:13 +0000

Thank God I switched to Wordpress when I did. I had over 3 blogs with MT and was actually able to consolidate 2 of them into one when I switched, thanks to the Media Manager Hack.

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Thu, 13 May 2004 23:29:06 +0000

Wordpress forever =)

By: joe mullins dot com

joe mullins dot com — Thu, 13 May 2004 23:01:35 +0000

The Movable Type Shitstorm
So Movable Type 3 is out, and there are a lot of unhappy campers out there. Main complaints: Too expensive for no real updates. There’s also a lot of “making money off of volunteer labor pool” kinda comments. Witness the…