Movable Type will Continue Evolving !
After the recent announcement about Six Apart, some of you might have been wondering about the future of Movable Type. We can be very clear about that: of course we will continue development and support of this platform that now has a decade of history behind it.
- Movable Type 4 remains rock-solid blogging software for all uses.
- Movable Type 5 is a new step up for managing multiple sites.
- Melody is driven by the most enthusiastic community of bleeding-edge developers.
All this software shares the same root: Movable Type, the publishing platform.
Movable Type 5.1 is in the final development phase, we are anticipating a Beta release early this winter. We are also planning another 4.x release to keep this mature branch up to date.
All these developments are open to the public. You can check our daily activities on FogBugz and in our code repositories. And just like every open source project, we appreciate your help to make Movable Type (even) Better !
Thanks Jun!
That's the assurance we all expected after Say Media took over Six Apart.
We look forward to continue using this platform and contribute with our comments, bug reports and ideas to make this platform even stronger!
Thank you Mihai,
Yes, let's make Movable Type stronger by ourselves !
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Movable type is the best blogging platform ever. Movable type is the bast blogging platform ever!
Y'know, I've used Movable Type for years and have always like the GENERAL design of it. Maybe I'm just an old dog and, having absorbed most of the templating structure and tags for years, don't look forward to changing my preferred choice of platform.
However, I'm really, really tired of all the ballyhoo which seems to surround every announcement of future activity and progress re: Movable Type. Take for instance MT 5.x: SixApart et al. loved to make a big deal about it -- it'll be the next big thing, yadda yadda -- but, as has been the case for YEARS now, there is almost no support and a very dismal community surrounding it. Plugin development is slower than snail's-pace, since all the previously helpful and respectable developers have stuck to 4.x. When the most loyal and dedicated members of the community (and their numbers have been dwindling for years now) give not only a cold shoulder to "the next big thing" but indeed seem to shudder in disgust when considering it...well, that seems to be saying something.
But even before 5.x, going back as far as the 3.x versions, the support has been god-awful when compared to nearly every other WWW-related enterprise. Even the forums and support pages for MT are hackneyed, little-developed, cumbersome, etc.
Now, I've long given the developers of MT a benefit of my doubt, since it has seemed obvious for years now that MT is primarily intended for paying corporate customers or anyone willing to shell out the bucks for direct one-to-one support. Obviously then, plugin development, support pages, and forums for the non-paying general public would be sidelined and seemingly low on the radar. I can understand the quandary faced by those out to make a profit but being bombarded by reactions like the one I'm leaving here. I have some sympathy to go along with my irritation.
Perhaps indeed this "Movable Type Will Continue Evolving!!" thread was never intended for me or many of the others who have, foolishly or otherwise, stuck to using MT over the years.
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