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Initial thoughts on Movable Type 3.0D

I don't know why I signed up for the 6A/MT newsletters; I always have to find things out through sidebars. Sloppy.

I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner, but I'm shocked by the personal license fees. I don't think they actually talked to anyone about personal blog usage. $100 is an awful lot for what is a procrastinatory hobby for the masses.

It would have been nice if the beta group had been sent a notice, too. Yes, there's the blog, but I'm not obsessive about checking it like I am with the e-mail. It would have been nice if the test groups had been offered an incentive as a thank you for putting in month(s) of free QA, like 6A did with TypePad.

Going full-on corporate with no notice isn't the best way to endear yourself to your existing community.

Do any of the plugin developers besides the top six get a cut?
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Not even a free 3.0D license? Will anyone update those 2.x plugins that break in v.3?

Think the beta folks are still going to post bugs, as we're exhorted to do? Anyone want to test next time now that you're a bit more informed?

How about the thousands of people in the forums who have presented solutions and workarounds that have widened MT's audience immeasurably? Do they get anything?

Is anyone who gets the 3.0D a developer? Can I add that to my résumé?

I wasn't planning on upgrading my main install any time soon anyway; besides the fact that I'm in the contact-us-about-special-corporate-rates pricing area, the idea of updating the templates on the 30 blogs (don't ask) to include the new commenting functionality, which, honestly, is about all that's any different with v.3, is a logistical nightmare -- my personal blog alone, which admittedly is my little playground, has 27 templates (you really don't want to know), and incorporates content from five other blogs.

Maybe I can slap one of those new AdSense image ads on here.

The blogs on the beta install are just going to stay beta for the time being. They're pretty stable at this point, and I'm tired of looking at them, though I hope you're growing more enchanted by the minute.

Entertaining elsewhere, perhaps more so

Mena's Corner: It's About Time (trackbacks)
3.0 Developer Forum

Movable Type RIP | Metafilter
Burningbird: For those about to move to Wordpress or Textpattern
O'Reilly Network: Movable Type 3.0 and Eating. [May. 13, 2004]
onepotmeal: Licensure
Blogroll.org: Show me the money!

opensourceCMS
ExpressionEngine
WordPress: New Pricing Scheme
Textpattern
LiveJournal.org

added 040514
PCWorld.com - Blog Development Tool Ships
By the general release of Movable Type 3.0, we expect to not only have a rich platform but also a great number of plug-ins created by the developer community.

Interview with Ben and Mena Trott
Mena Trott: Hi!
Ben Trott: Hi!

Liza Sabater: Timothy Appnel Doesn't Get It : Adding to the MT 3.0 debate

Phil Wolff: Scale-hostile pricing: Movable Type maxes me out

Jason Kottke: The end of free

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D. Keith Robinson: Movable Type SOLD OUT!?!

Posted by gwen at May 13, 2004 02:34 PM