Comments on: MT 3.0: what’s going on?

By: Carl Ross

Carl Ross — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:36:43 +0000

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By: JW

JW — Mon, 17 May 2004 15:59:38 +0000

No matter what their responses are to the critism they got in the first place, harm has already been done.

And maybe I am ans asshead (without shoveling dirt though), but I am seriously reconcidering my blogging tool.

I have been in the alpha and beta tests of MT3.0 and from my point of view the code isn’t worth the bucks. (crappy, very much based and related to TypePad)

There are nicer, cleaner, well-coded alternatives which will do the same job or even better.

And sticking to version 2.66x isn’t an option. The web evolves so should your blogging tool.

Only the migrating and tag-learning-again is a big con in favor of the other alternatives.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 17 May 2004 14:30:31 +0000

My only real issue is the cost of $10 if you want to have someone as a guest blogger, or to log in and fix your templates – but frankly, $10 is perfectly reasonable.

Clearly the whole thing was a rush and a botch – the communication was fumbled badly, their website remains inconsistent, and their documentation was updated patchily. However, the repricing is a good response to a bad cock-up, and I really hope it was quick enough for 6A to avoid the loss of goodwill.

By: The Spoons Experience

The Spoons Experience — Sun, 16 May 2004 21:00:16 +0000

MOVABLE TYPE ON THE MEND?

I was telling Laura last night that I really felt sorry for Ben and Mena Trott, the couple behind Movable…

By: Hg

Hg — Sun, 16 May 2004 14:31:54 +0000

Why is it crazy? I’m not being belligerent, I’m interested in your viewpoint.

Ten dollars seems a reasonable amount to me. If you’re using the free version, you can only have a single author and can’t use add-on licenses, so you’re implying that you must have bought a personal license.

If you have the lowest level of personal license you already have five authors and you’ve paid $70 for the privilege (unless you don’t take advantage of the special offer, in which case you’ve paid $100).

Having paid seventy dollars for five authors, I’m interested in why you feel that an extra ten dollars to add another author isn’t good value.

(Disclaimer, just in case I didn’t make it obvious enough above: this is not a flame, I’m interested in the psychology of pricing structures.)

By: memigo

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By: what

what — Sun, 16 May 2004 05:57:35 +0000

I still don’t get it. I have to pay $10 to add my sister to my family blog? It’s still crazy!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 16 May 2004 02:41:46 +0000

They are not a family business. They are a VC funded company with branches all over the world. Who are you kidding? They started as a family business but they are not anymore. They are trying to get as much monye as possible, as we witness today. Since better or same alternatives are available, noone has to accept this pricing structure which is quite weird and hard to comply with. I have to track when the authors have posted to make sure whether they are considered to be active or not? What is this, there are tons of weblogging software I can use for free or at least far lower than this without the restrictions.

Typepad destroyed MT, period.

By: Herb

Herb — Sat, 15 May 2004 23:18:21 +0000

I wouldn’t say “Boo” exactly. There are reasons not to be happy about the pricing scheme. Not saying that the software isn’t worth paying for, just that for some people other software will do just as well, or better and not cost anything. That doesn’t make them assheads.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 15 May 2004 21:29:21 +0000

Now there’s NO doubt that I’ll be paying up. Yay for Six Apart, boo for the assheads who started shoveling dirt onto them the minute they heard the word “pay.”