May 18, 2004

Moved Type

The old default styles for MT < 3.0 (“Stormy,” “Gettysburg,” “Trendy,” etc.) are now nowhere to be found on movabletype.org. Or at least I didn’t find them after some dedicated looking.

The new styles don’t work with 2.6x templates. And the new templates (provided) don’t work with 2.6x period.

So already we see the erosion of the platitude, “if you’re happy with what you have there’s no need to switch or pay anything.”

Update: MovableStyle.com’s also moving.

Posted by mgk at May 18, 2004 10:33 PM
Comments

Hm. And the new version's a "developers edition", so us regulars aren't even supposed to be using it anyway.

Posted by: Jill at May 19, 2004 08:10 AM | Link to Comment

Of course the < 3.0 templates are gone too. Screw up and need a clean copy of one? Out of luck.

Or, again, if this stuff *is* still there then it's well hidden.

Posted by: Matt at May 19, 2004 08:39 AM | Link to Comment

Hmm. That's just lame. Although I'm sure there are folks who will post copies of the old css code (mental note to check for old backup copies at home).

I'm becoming less impressed by the minute. If I have to spend several hundred dollars to maintain Wordherders (maintain = eventual upgrade, at some point in the future), I'm certainly going to shop around before doing so. I'm happy to pay for software that we use, and I'll even pay more than I think the software should cost (a couple of hundred in MT's case, at least, to support the Herd, which I think is a bit much), but I certainly would expect significantly better features for the money. Right now, I'm not seeing those features... and find the blog/author limits just silly and unclear.

Posted by: Jason at May 19, 2004 09:05 AM | Link to Comment

It might be time to switch to an open-source platform. I'm hearing very good things about both WordPress and Drupal.

I friend of mine has just set up a test install WordPress and he's raving about it: quick and painless, seemless migration of old entries from MT.

Posted by: Rudolf at May 24, 2004 10:51 PM | Link to Comment

I think those old templates are back:
http://www.movabletype.org/help/default_styles_26.shtml

Posted by: noah at September 22, 2004 11:09 PM | Link to Comment
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