Okay, after sitting on my MovableType 2.6x ass for far too long, I've upgraded to MovableType 3.16. I'm posting this mainly to see if it still works and let you know that if stuff doesn't seem to be working right, shoot me an email about it.
Now, to go install some shiny new anti-spam plugins.
Posted by jzawodn at April 21, 2005 01:12 PM
Glad to have you on MT3. I'd suggest Moderate, SpamLookup, and possibly MT-Blacklist, out of the box. Lots of people who are admin types have had success with some mod_security rules, too, but I find I don't need those with SpamLookup on board.
Also, I'd love to hear more about your experience in using MT3 vs. MT2. It's been a while since I've used the old versions, so the perspective might be handy.
Ok, I'll stop monopolizing your comments now. :)
Out of curiosity, have you looked into WordPress. I'm pretty happy with the 1.5 version (1.2 had a lot of annoying bugs). 1.5 is a'ight.
> Foo!
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> Ha.
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> Zap.
Bar!
Heh.
Bam.
This is starting to sound like the old Batman TV series.
I have looked at WP, yes. It's nice.
However, I have a 3+ year investment in MT with many entries, scripts, and so on. There's little compelling reason to spend all that effort switching.
Heh, I love the religious folks. As a WP zealot, I know that the real difference between the two is like arguing the differences between Macs and PCs.
Fundementally, who cares? They're tools. Use the one that does the job best for you.
Oh yeah,
Biff!
Blammo!
Zot!
Spackle!
Spackle?
MT3.x is very dandy, and a real worthwhile upgrade over 2.6x. WP 1.5 is also very good but you'll almost certainly have to change all of your permalinks.
No snags. It was a trivial upgrade, As It Should Be. :-)
Ohh ohh! Upgrade me. And Trevor. And Audrey. And Allison. :)
SpamLookup seems great. Also I've gotten rid of the MT-Blacklist stuff which I was previously running.
Another vote for SpamLookup - I use it with MT-Moderate to allow moderation of trackacks and it works great - no spam since I installed, and I'm not using MT Blacklist either.
Neil T. said:
"MT3.x is very dandy, and a real worthwhile upgrade over 2.6x. WP 1.5 is also very good but you'll almost certainly have to change all of your permalinks."
This is easier than you'd think. You can use MT's built-in archive templating features to create redirect statements for your .htaccess file. If you have a lot of entries it'll be freaking huge, but some regular expressions could pare it down significantly. For someone using Apache to serve their blog, it's a great solution.
This thread in the WP support forum has links to most of the related tutorials: http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=29135
