set mt3 to "good" as string
(What can I say? I'm more of an AppleScripter than a programmer.)
I've been playing with the new Movable Type 3. It's pretty great. For those of you who haven't seen this yet, Six Apart has changed their licensing plan for the software from what was announced a few days ago.
Old Plan
- 1 author / 3 blogs / Free
- 3 authors / 5 blogs / $70
- 6 authors / 8 blogs / $120
- 9 authors / 10 blogs / $150
New Plan
- 1 author / 3 blogs / Free
- 5 authors / 5 blogs / $70
- 10 authors / 10 blogs / $120
- 13 authors / 13 blogs / $150
Plus you can add 1 author and 1 blog to any paid license for $10.
It's pretty friendly now. After seeing this new plan and thinking about it, I've decided to stick with Movable Type. In fact I've already paid for my license. I haven't updated this site yet. I'm testing the new version out in the background first and will bring the new version online when I'm ready.
The whole Export entries and Import entries function works really well. I'm able to work with an exact copy of this site in my test site with those functions. Maybe these functions have always worked well. I don't know. I never had to use them before. I'm impressed that it brings over Comments as well. I'm guessing it would do the same for Trackbacks but no one's ever done a Trackback ping to my site so I don't know.
The new Comment Management is exactly what I was looking for. It makes me very happy.
I'm also glad that they've switched to XHTML. There's actually a few bugs with the default templates. They don't validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I've already put in a report about this to Six Apart along with a couple of other fixes they could do to make it possible to do XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict, or XHTML 1.1 right out of the box. All the end user would have to do is put in the appropriate DOCTYPE in the template.
One other important point: they consider a weblog to be the actual site that you're looking at. So if for example you're using another weblog to feed a blog roll to your weblog, that's still only one weblog as far as licensing is concerned. That's very cool of them.
Ok, I'm off to do some more playing. Plus I have to finish reading "Crossroads of Twilight" this weekend. I don't want to be distracted when I go back to work on Monday.
Comments
This is funny, you paid 70$ for something that you can do with almost zero price tag? 3.0 and 2.6 are almost the same, except Typekey.
Posted by: Alex | May 15, 2004 4:34 PM
I guess it comes down to whether you feel you want to support software developers or not.
I didn't make any donations to Six Apart for their 2.6 software. I like their software, so I don't mind paying for this. I use it nearly every day. $70 is not much to ask.
If you're happy with sticking with 2.6 and not upgrading from there and it does everthing you need it to, then I'm happy for you.
Posted by: Jon | May 15, 2004 4:58 PM
I think Jon has a set of ethics that if more people had them, the world would be a better place.
When the non-developer's release comes out, I expect it will have many of the same extra features as TypePad Pro. I have a feeling that MT3 is the Movable Type Pro they've been talking about for so long. I could be wrong and there will be a bare-bones MT3D and a feature-packed MT3P (that will cause people to jump out of buildings when they hear about the price), but this looks pretty close to what they described MT Pro being (and once again, this is a developer's release, the feature release will be out July-ish, says Jay Allen who probably has a pretty good idea of these things.
Plus with the new plug-in interface, the plug-ins for MT3 are going to be out of this world and not backwards compatible.
2.661 is going to wither and die, unfortunately. I heard it was still downloadable, but they removed that page. Apparently there is a earlier version with a different license that will be free, but I don't know where to get it. It will take a long time, but it just won't be able to stand up to MT3.
A lot of people will migrate to other blogging systems and I think that's a good thing. If everyone's going to get all capitalistic, there might as well be a lot of competition to go along with it.
Posted by: Hanna | May 16, 2004 4:00 PM
Thanks Hanna!
"Alex" here is the same person as the infamous "Jim" over at Jay's website.
At least I'm not the only one who was a little upset by his remarks.
Posted by: Jon | May 16, 2004 4:10 PM
Sweetie,
"Alex" is a troll from Jay Allen's site. Jay has the whole issue broken down ,a href="http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2004/05/fromtrollto_doppelganger">here and here (you might be getting hits from the second one at least, because Jay tracked him to your site).
he is a mean, spiteful person who is just trying to hurt other people. i'm sorry he got you too. :(
You, on the other hand, are the kind of man "alex" could never be (not without a lot of therapy). Thank you for being the wonderful human being you are.
Love,
Hanna.
Posted by: Hanna | May 16, 2004 11:42 PM