You’re very welcome, glad that you found it to be balanced and fair. However, I’m sure plenty of others will disagree with me on this review…

C’est La Vie…

Darrell,

Out of curiosity, do you have any thoughts on reCAPTCHA? It has an audio CAPTCHA available and has a plugin available for MT. I use it on Plagiarism Today and love it.

Is that one accessible enough or is more needed? Please let me know when you can, I’ll be very eager to hear.

I don’t wish to exclude anyone from my site.

Dave,

I don’t think it’s possible to get such a chart and make it really accurate. I have to agree with Anil. What happens if I start out on Blogger, move to MT, and then switch to WP or S9Y? I could have three sites up, one of each type.

There’s little way to get accurage information and most of the material here is self-reported, which isn’t very useful.

As a researcher, this project is second only to the “How much spam blogging is out there” project in terms of statistical nightmare.

Anil,

Welcome to the conversation! Thanks for the follow up!

And then a bunch more nerds would say “Well, what about A, B and C, huh? The taller bar should be even more tall!”

Then the thread would degenerate into even more stupid stuff. Various folks who’d been wronged by either platform would come in to tell their tales of woe. If you’re really unlucky, senior executives of the respective companies would come in and act petty, and things would peter out after a day or two. Maybe it’d get linked on Digg, and then the idiocy would last one or two days more.

And none of that would help any new people start blogging, or help people evaluate which platform worked better for them, or do any of the other stuff that’s helped blogging change the world.

But you would have a chart with two bars on it. If you’re in to that sort of thing. :)

One of the most popular plugins for MT 3.x was Comment Challenge, which was purely text-based, and our LiveJournal team pioneered one of the first widely-deployed alternative audio CAPTCHAs on the web, so I would check back in shortly to find an accessible CAPTCHA plugin for MT4. Until then, one great way to limit comment spam and remain accessible is using MT4′s built-in OpenID support.

A Loyal Blog Herald Reader,
Byrne Reese
Product Manager, MT

You’re right, I didn’t mention the scalability. Of course, I didn’t have much of a means to test it being a lowly blogger and what not :)

That is a great feature worth noting though.

It is nice to see that MT has grown up a bit though, like you, I never saw myself coming to it. I can’t see myself switching what I have over to it, but for my next project, whatever it may be, I’ll definitely be weighing it in!

The installation was really not any harder than WordPress. Folders go in different places, and MT is really quite serious about having your CGI file permissions set at 755. It’s more different than difficult.

Something you’ve not touched on is MT’s scalability. This platform is simply designed for larger installations. You can even set it to automatically create new blogs as users register. Very impressive.

The sell is the architecture. Without pouring on the hype, it looks as if MT4 might represent a new generation of site software: part blogging engine, part CMS. Now that MT is going Open Source, I think you’ll see a real revival of the platform.

I started on MT 2.x back in 2003, and never imagined I’d use it again. Now I’m considering standardizing it across all my projects. It seems to do everything well.

Surprise, surprise.

Yes, but you first have to export from WP, which kind of makes sense if you think about it.

Chris,

Welcome to the conversation, please let me know if I got anything wrong!

Deelip,

MT has been around a long time, I was using 2.6 on an old site of mine. I loved it but swtiched to WP for all new sites. However, I have to say that there is a lot to love about the new MT. Give it a look when you get a chance!

Disclaimer: I am a Six Apart employee but since this a purely informational response, hopefully that is okay.

And how come s9y gets no love? :)