May 13, 2004
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MT 3.0 Developer Edition is out today. Thoughts?
Posted by jozjozjoz at May 13, 2004 02:20 PM
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I'm pissed about the pricing scheme. Not that I personally need any more than the free edition, but I know there are plenty of bloggers out there who have their friends set up their blog for them and simply use MT to post. It will end up costing a lot of money for casual bloggers unless one of three things happen:
1. Don't move to MT 3.0. The features I have read about are great, so this will be hard. Especially as development for MT 3.0 begins and development for the older versions dies out.
2. Wait and hope MT wakes up. They build their fan base with a free product that did what we needed it to do and did it well. Many have donated, but that will end when they charge as much as they plan. Maybe they will see the light when sales aren't what they hoped.
3. Move to another system. I'm doing this one right now. ONLY open source, so it won't ever be charged for. I've checked out WordPress, b2, b2-evolution, Nucleus, and Serendipity. I've also checked out an interesting one called Pivot that doesn't require a back-end database. There are a lot of options, so I'll take my time.
I agree with you on point 2.
I've also treid WP, Neucleus and B2 [they're set up on my server already], as well as pMachine Free - did not like any of them.
I did like MT until it started buggin' out on me. Now I'm thinking of using Blogger as they've completely revamped and it's looking [and working] goooooood.
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I'm pissed about the pricing scheme. Not that I personally need any more than the free edition, but I know there are plenty of bloggers out there who have their friends set up their blog for them and simply use MT to post. It will end up costing a lot of money for casual bloggers unless one of three things happen:
Posted by: BillH at May 14, 2004 08:47 PM1. Don't move to MT 3.0. The features I have read about are great, so this will be hard. Especially as development for MT 3.0 begins and development for the older versions dies out.
2. Wait and hope MT wakes up. They build their fan base with a free product that did what we needed it to do and did it well. Many have donated, but that will end when they charge as much as they plan. Maybe they will see the light when sales aren't what they hoped.
3. Move to another system. I'm doing this one right now. ONLY open source, so it won't ever be charged for. I've checked out WordPress, b2, b2-evolution, Nucleus, and Serendipity. I've also checked out an interesting one called Pivot that doesn't require a back-end database. There are a lot of options, so I'll take my time.