scriptygoddessWell this is interesting. Not that I want to start a debate here about this – but I'm very surprised to see the free version of MT 3.0 so limited (in fact – based on what Melissa said, it doesn't even sound like it's even a viable option for me). (Actually, I had no idea there was going to be a PAY MT 3.0 – I thought it was going to be FREE MT 3.0 and THEN "MT PRO" – which would be for pay. Guess I missed that day in class)
I don't know that I'm willing to pay what they're charging for this upgrade – and as far as I know – it doesn't even do many of the things *I* was hoping it would.
Melissa offered a few alternatives –
Drupal
Word Press
I'm even considering writing my own (albeit limited) content management system. At least, THEN I know it will do what I want it to.
But – anyone got any other alternative publishing systems? Or thoughts on these two? WordPress looks nice.. I may download it and check it out.
Update Just wanted to update the post to add this one thing (I posted this in the comments – I'm just repeating it up here):
I'm not against paying for my content management software. I'm just not quite thrilled with the feature list of MT. Sure there's a lot that it does – but there's a lot that it DOESN'T do. Actually – that's what most of THIS blog has been about. MAKING MT do what I want. And usually in very kludge ways because I perfer to code in PHP.
I would HAPPILY pay, even what they're asking, if it would do all this on it's own. I have to WORK to get MT to do what I want – and for that I'm asked to pay a premium??
Update 2: Downloaded TextPattern – but it's only for one blog. I have at last count – 8 blogs (some private, some not) and 2 authors. So WordPress won't work for me either. Looking into ExpressionEngine now…
