{"id":99,"date":"2004-05-14T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/movable-type-3\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T15:09:46","slug":"movable-type-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/movable-type-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movable Type 3 Developer Edition is out.
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Stirred quite a controversy<\/a> and lots<\/i> of anger<\/a>, huh…<\/p>\n

While I think it’s perfectly reasonable that a company start trying to make some serious money off their product (gotta pay Mie<\/a> after all :[\/mfn] I think what most people are complaining about, is the steep pricing mechanism: of course there still is a free version, but if (like so many) you happen to have more than one author and\/or more than three blogs on your site, the first price comes to $70 and goes very quickly up with each new blog\/author.<\/p>\n

Problem is, for as much as I like MT and appreciate the work that’s been put into it, $70 is, both psychologically and in regards to the competition, too high to justify such an investment. I mean, MT is a fine product, but let’s face it, most of its core could be coded (better and faster) by one or two people in less than a week (granted: with an interface nowhere near as polished). The only feature that really makes it stand apart is its flawless handling of multiple blogs\/authors and good support of web standard technologies (xml, atom, xml-rpc etc). If you remove the former from the free bundle, it doesn’t hold a candle to some other free solution out there<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Further more, I personally think (and seem to be one of many), that a revamped commenting system is a tad light as the only prominent feature in a major update. It makes it hard to justify an upgrade.<\/p>\n

To conclude, it might be more realistic and in tune with the market to offer a personal use license for under $30 that covers up to a dozen blogs\/authors, while charging “real” commercial prices for corporate use. As for me, I think I will stick with this version for a while and might consider switching to WordPress in the future: its architecture is definitely nicer, and the fact it is open-source and written in PHP makes it infinitely more appealing to my inner-geek (plus the moral bonus of being able to contribute by coding)…<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Movable Type’s new pricing scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}