Not that I'm trying to talk you out of anything, obviously people are going to use whatever best suits their needs. I do find it interesting you use both though. It seems you usually find people who are on one side of the fence or the other. Sometimes it's best to be on the fence…you get a better view

While they are similar in many respects, the new rockin' versions make it seem increasingly odd to consider them as competitors. Wordpress is best for single blogs. Movable Type is better if you want a lightweight CMS; if you want a bigger multi-blog site, or a hybrid site with a more open ended structure. I can't really use one tool in place of the other. I use both.

While this may not be a completely favorable post about Movable Type, I really say nothing horrendous about Six Apart as a company. There are many opinions in the post, all of them based on many years of experience in blogging and social media.

The post is about my experiences and many people I've known in the blogging community. When I was writing this post I wasn't twirling my handlebar mustache and laughing diabolically while petting a cat. In fact it was just the opposite. It was, for me, a look back at what might have been.

My first “blog” was hand coded html. From there I graduated to Blogger. I outgrew Blogger and moved to TypePad. I wanted more control and flexibility so I moved to Movable Type. I have extremely fond memories of hacking into Movable Type and I'm extremely aware of the opportunities it provided me.

I stuck with Movable Type long after the pricing fiasco. I actually never berated them back then for it (that I can remember at least). I thought the community sentiment was a bit over-reactionary and I was always aware of the free single-user license, which is what I used so I never understood the big deal.

Does that change any of the things I said? No, I still believe everything I said and I also believe that it is a fairly accurate retelling of the events that I believe ultimately led to WordPress being a dominant publishing platform for exactly the reasons I mentioned. It's always been free on every level, it's always been Open Source, it uses far less user resources and it's backend is much faster.

It's not as if I wrote this out of the blue to somehow cast aspersions on Movable Type. It was, I felt directly related to the announcement on Saturday so, I wrote it.

While this may not be a “favorable” post about Movable Type, I really say nothing horrendous about Six Apart as a company. There are many opinions in the post, all of them based on many years of experience in blogging and social media.

The post is about my experiences as well as the experiences of many people I've known in the blogging community. When I was writing this post I wasn't twirling my handlebar mustache and laughing diabolically while petting a cat. In fact it was just the opposite. It was, for me, a look back at what might have been.

My first “blog” was hand coded html. From there I graduated to Blogger. I outgrew Blogger and moved to TypePad. I wanted more control and flexibility so I moved to Movable Type. I have extremely fond memories of hacking into Movable Type and I'm extremely aware of the opportunities it provided me.

If anything I was a late adopter to WordPress. As a matter of fact, I used Movable Type up until early 2006. I actually just found a post from 2006 that mentioned the issues I was having setting up MT on GoDaddy (when I was moving from TypePad) and I don't say one bad thing about MT, in fact I told MT users to beware of GoDaddy at the time. The problem was that it came to a point where I was getting enough traffic that my hosting bills were outrageous. I actually moved a dedicated server and still had issues. The bottom line was I literally couldn't afford to use Movable Type anymore. I found when I switched to WordPress that with the same amount of traffic and pageviews I was using about a quarter of the resources and that the community developing plugins and themes around WordPress was far more vibrant and dynamic than I was used to. It has also been my experience that my relationship with MT was not unique.

I stuck with Movable Type long after the pricing fiasco. I actually never berated them back then for it (that I can remember at least). I thought the community sentiment was a bit over-reactionary and I was always aware of the free single-user license, which is what I used so I never understood the big deal.

Does that change any of the things I said? No, I still stand by everything I said and I also believe that it is a fairly accurate retelling of the events that I believe ultimately led to WordPress being a dominant publishing platform for exactly the reasons I mentioned. It's always been free on every level, it's always been Open Source, it uses far less user resources and it's backend is much faster.

It's not as if I wrote this out of the blue to somehow cast aspersions on Movable Type. It was, I felt directly related to the announcement on Saturday so, I wrote it.

I very much appreciate your point of view and thank you for sharing it.