MT 3.1 Pfff
Friday, September 3rd, 2004Well these days i’ve been trying this blogging system, that everybody thinks is the greatest. Oh well, this has been a purely deception, and of course it has features that actually Wordpress already has them since 2 or 3 months ago, like the dynamic publication (which also Textpattern has), sub-categories (which both, WP and TXP has), future publishing, so if you are absent for… i dunno 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, you can write some articles and then you can configure them to publish on a particular date, so your blog doesn’t look very alone in your absent time (WP has this feature only).
First of all, is not that easy to configure that dynamic publishing, you have to configure each template you’re using for your archives, so if you missed something in any template, you’re screwed. Of course it’s a requirement to have mod_rewrite, thing that doesn’t happens with WP or TXP, where you’re not forced to use it if in your host is not enabled. So if you don’t have mod_rewrite, sorry, you have to use static publishing and rebuild everything when you’re changing something.
The comment system, in just one word, is ssssssslow.
And some sort of weird glitches for example when you’re using dynamic publishing, the archives doesn’t seem to exist sometimes and sometimes they exist, very weird.
And i can’t see the PHP support on this, i can’t see it, i’m sorry if i look so damn ignorant, but where is it? i can’t see it seriously. And yeah i pretend to be a total ignorant when i’m using a new piece of software just to see how easy is to use it.
So, there will not be a switch to MT3.1 since it’s basically the same with some bloated features and sometimes a little slow, so lets wait until the Six Apart guys give us an explanation on this or something, that tends to happen with this people, but whatever…
UPDATE Like always, this guys are really quick, there’s available a bug fix for all this issues we had