Wriging Thread: The New Movable Type - More Than Blogging

The New Movable Type - More Than Blogging

fuscom — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:01:30

I started my blog out on MT and then moved it to Wordpress. I'm seriously pondering moving it back, especially since I qualify for the upgrade pricing.

The New Movable Type - More Than Blogging

RightOn — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:43:40

I've been seriously thinking about moving www.dciscores.com to the new MT.

The New Movable Type - More Than Blogging

lalindsey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:13:37

I love MT. I love Wordpress more, but I've always been a serious Movable Type fan girl. I want to go back, but switching back my blog to MT would be too much work - but for future projects I will definitely push for MT if Wordpress isn't an option (and they don't want to pay for Expression Engine).

The New Movable Type - More Than Blogging

shadowsun7 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:18:59

Mike posted a note sometime back about MT's security as compared to Wordpress, and it got me thinking about switching platforms. I wanted to install a MT 4.1 test blog immediately, but a hop over to MT.org's blog suggested a wait until they released version 4.2. Okay, I thought - speed upgrade of up to 100%? Might as well wait a couple more months.

Well here it is.

And what a job they've done with MT! On one hand I'm wondering just how far you can push the envelope considering it's Perl, but the Six Apart people have built MT into a CMS with a focus on the more social aspects of the web. You get threaded comments, forums and the option to create static standalone webpages ... honest to God amazing stuff.

What are your thoughts on this? Is MT really as secure as Anil says it is? Or is it secure just because there's less people using it (like Macs)?