I am thinking about moving back to Movable Type, for some of the following reasons:
They set it free
I initially moved away from MT around the same time that Six Apart kind of fucked us all over. Now that they’re back into releasing a version under the GPL, it’s worth supporting that.
Kick in the bum
I am sort of blogging more now, I guess. I think having a project to do (getting migrated, etc) will give me more incentive to concentrate on it and make it quality.
Multiple blogs
I know you can run several blogs off one Wordpress install in theory. In practice it is still, in my opinion, kludgey and horrid. A system that can do this properly out of the box is, in principle, a better solution.
The interface is fucking amazing
Seriously. So is WP’s new interface, but MT4’s is hella nice.
More intuitive templating
I’ve never loved Wordpress’ templating the way I loved MT’s. It doesn’t hurt that MT’s template tags are much like Matrix’s design elements.
Less hassle for serving
Not that I have a massive amount of readership to be pushing files to, but in principle it is nicer to write static files when you can.
So, you know. There it is.
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MT really is yummy. I actually gave it a whirl after reading this and finding out it was open source… hell, you know i could do with a reboot.
It’s easy and fast to install, and that interface is really nice. The only feedback I’d have is that I had some permissions issues installing plugins on my server, but all in all pretty easy to sort out.