The pending decline of MT
Duncan Riley> From day 1 I have been an MT fan and have often being criticized for my undying love for the product and the Trott’s, but today my spell was broken with the launch of MT 3.0 developer edition and SixApart’s new pricing structure for MT.
Want to have more than 1 author on your MT 3 powered blog: that will be $99.99 USD please or if you buy in the next 10 minutes we’ll cut the price to $69.99 and thrown in a free set of streak knives!. And even for this price you are limited to 5 blogs only. Want more blogs, cough up some more money.
The darling swan of the blogging set is turning into an ugly duckling before our eyes, and Ben Trott looks like he is starting to have visions that he is Bill Gates everyday. Not only do we get a “Developer Edition” which would normally be a Microsoft like code for “Beta which we never quite debugged properly” but the pricing structure in a highly competitive marketplace will drive many self-installing bloggers to over alternatives such as TextPattern or WordPress (although I’ve never been able to successfully install WordPress).
Perhaps I’m being too harsh, but I’ll certainly start looking elsewhere. Tell me what you think.
Try pMachine’s Expression Engine.
WordPress id *dead* easy. The most suitable GPL alternative.
Try ExpressionEngine for free! They are giving away 1,000 free copies to people running other system for 6 months or more, you just have to ask for it on their web site at http://www.pmachine.com
I completely agree that Six Apart has put its users in a very difficult position insofar as where to go from here, especially for people who don’t have the cash for licensing. Even the big guys like Mark Pilgrim and Jason Kottke are turning away.
You might be interested in an entry I posted to my blog on this topic:
http://fiveaside.org/2004/05/they-say-meek-shall-inherit.html
What problems did you face when you tried installing WordPress?
Help is round the corner :)
http://wordpress.org/support
“Perhaps I’m being too harsh, but I’ll certainly start looking elsewhere. Tell me what you think.”
Curious, but if the tool you have right now does what you need, (and obviously it does, since the site is up and running just fine) why are you looking elsewehre?
“Perhaps I’m being too harsh, but I’ll certainly start looking elsewhere. Tell me what you think.”
Curious, but if the tool you have right now does what you need, (and obviously it does, since the site is up and running just fine) why are you looking elsewehre?
I would have agreed a few months ago about the impending decline of MT, but recently they seem to be going from strength to strength. See: http://www.mediajunk.com/public/archives/000331.html
Only time will tell I suppose…