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Post number 15686

ejoey — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:11:45 -0800

By: tomorama

tomorama — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:42:27 -0800

The amount of work and quality features that go into that program amazes me. Of course, the only change I'd make would be to do the whole shebang in PHP instead of Perl. But hey, I'm biased when it comes down to that.

By: untuckedshirts

untuckedshirts — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:50:11 -0800

Movabletype is, without a doubt, the best internet app I have ever used. I installed it on my website and it works perfectly. It's seamless interface and ease of use (after installing) is amazing. I can't wait to install MT 2.0.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:20:25 -0800

This is probably a link better placed on MetaTalk under the weblog-related category. That being said, I've been using MT since its release and have been very impressed. If the Ben and Mena decided to charge for it, I'd pay-up in a second.

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:23:30 -0800

Eyeballkid, what's stopping you from paying up now?

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:25:07 -0800

donkeyschlong... I've been on that list for months, thankyouverymuch.

By: nedrichards

nedrichards — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:37:26 -0800

MT2 Rocks. Seriously, impressively cool. I've been using it for a while on their beta program and I've been hugely impressed, not just at the quality of the product but with the dedication Ben and Mena have put into bug fixing, feature adding and generally being wonderful. How they found time to move house whilst doing all this is extraordinary. Nice one guys. [oh and people, they weren't joking when they reminded you to backup your entries before installation]

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:13:29 -0800

I stand corrected. :) But doesn't this moot your original comment?

By: gyc

gyc — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:58:51 -0800

I was waiting for 2.0 to switch from Blogger and just did. Painless installation, although the instructions could have been more clear. Awesome awesome product.

By: eilatan

eilatan — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:19:30 -0800

I've been playing with MT for a while now, and I think I may actually attempt to import my current Greymatter site into MT 2.0 due to the incredible spiffiness of it. And because I love the multiple blog support, the categories, and the fact that it's a living piece of software (unlike GM, which is more or less dead). I thought the installation instructions were much clearer this time around--a lot of the problems I've had in prior installs were addressed in the instructions. Now, all I need to do is wrap my head around MT tags (for some reason, I can't internalize how they work, drives me nuts).

By: D

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:29:10 -0800

As another satisfied beta tester: version 2 is a blast. I can't even imagine what they could add to it (but I've thought that before). And FWIW, the trend towards posting this sort of link to MeTa instead of here has made me hang out on MeTa more often.

By: Soliloquy

Soliloquy — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:36:31 -0800

Just performed the upgrade and my entries carried over seamlessy. One site down, two to go...

By: jacobw

jacobw — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:16:17 -0800

Upgrade completed flawlessly. No need for clearer instructions or even the export/saving of my entries. MT2.0 is sweet.

By: walrus

walrus — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:23:55 -0800

I heart MT.

By: willnot

willnot — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:20:19 -0800

If you've never installed this before, you might not want to start at 11:30, because before you know it, it's 3 AM, and you're going to be beyond tired at work the next morning (just guessing). And if you are going to try to install it late at night, do yourself a favor and be sure to remember that the unix filing system IS case sensative.

By: Taken Outtacontext

Taken Outtacontext — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 05:09:01 -0800

Ben and Mena, thanks for all your hard work and dedication. You are outstanding in OUR field!!!

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:42:53 -0800

It took me less than five minutes to get 1.0 up and running, and less than one minute to get the 2.0 upgrade installed. Yay!

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:49:31 -0800

waxpancake, when do we get to see the blog?

By: GatorDavid

GatorDavid — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:34:46 -0800

For General Consumption: I've written a few hacks and mods for MT that you might enjoy. They're available under the category "MovableType" on my project blog: Works in Progress - - Note: Just putting this up here to be nice; I'm not trying to self-promote or anything ...

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:45:07 -0800

It's in development. Expect something within the next week or two.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:33:22 -0800

The idea of writing a blog has been rolling around in my head for a while, but I haven't done it yet, partly because none of the blogging tools did everything I wanted. I'd planned to just write my own perl scripts to handle my blog, but never seemed to get around to it. Now I may not have to--I'll have to take a closer look at MT2. Multiple categories for a single entry was one of the biggies I wanted, which I see MT2 supports.