Not that any of my non-tech readers care, but the system switch is complete. Previously I was using Movabletype 3.15. Now I am using WordPress 1.5. Perhaps you non-techie types have noticed the new visual design.
Why the switch? Several reasons. Functionally, Movabletype is a very useful system. It has served me well for many months since the time when I first started this site. However, several things came together which made me decide it was time to move on.
Ever since the new licensing that was rolled out with Movabletype 3 I knew MT was not the system that would take me into the future. (If you were or are an MT user chances are you know what I’m talking about. For anyone else, it isn’t important enough to explain.) While under the new licensing scheme my current site (of a single not for profit blog) is acceptable, the new license pretty well capped any experimentation I might be inclined to undertake. I understand the desire of the Movabletype team to make money from their labor, but I don’t have a lot of money to spend, and on principle I don’t like people telling me what I may and may not do. So . . . for some time since the new licensing came out I continued to use MT, but I knew that wasn’t where my future lay.
But the straw that really broke the camels back is when a security patch to the MT system broke the e-mail notification feature. No one on my notification list received the e-mail when I updated the site. MT was now half broken. As best I can tell this happened sometime in February so if you’re one of the readers that subscribed via the e-mail notification feature . . . now you know about how much you’ve missed.
Upgrading the system was not too much of a hassle. The hardest thing was finding the time. And being careful so I didn’t screw up. Everything seems to have gone smoothly. The import from MT went well. My biggest concern was the migration. I didn’t (don’t) want to loose any users because of the switch. I hope I did the RSS redirect right. I hope the new e-mail notificaiton system works right.
I think I did it all right. I hope. I’m not sure. RSS is still in the testing stage. Good news is that the new e-mail notification system seems to be much better.
The new visual design still has some rought spots. I’m not sure if it will be my permanent design. It was put together in haste. Comments are welcome. It’s something I’ll be tweaking with in the months to come.
The switch to the new system is complete.t
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