Comments on: Movable Type or WordPress – Arvind Knows What He Prefers and Why

By: Interview With Arvind on Movable Type and Why He Loves It | The Blog Herald

Interview With Arvind on Movable Type and Why He Loves It | The Blog Herald — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:52:45 +0000

[...] being curious is a good thing, so I figured I’d interview Arvind on the subject, and the interview is up now on BloggerTalks, sparking reactions in the comments already. I think you should check it out, it gives some [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:14:12 +0000

I’m happy to clarify — WordPress Ideas forum has given us new ideas and helped us prioritize the roadmap for every release since it was created. Every release has knocked a few things off the top of the list. We could, though, do a better job about gardening the forum to catch everything that’s been implemented already.

My comment about voting was in the context of a divisive but trivial issue that was taking too much time away from things that mattered to users. In Open Source, or any development, there is always the danger of a vocal minority or special interest groups shifting focus away from what matters to regular folks. We don’t design by committee, or put every trivial decision to some kind of vote, but the people ultimately accountable for WordPress gather as many opinions and thoughts as possible to make an informed decision, and then we move on. The results over the past 5 years, I believe, speak for themselves.

By: Movable Type Monday: Conference Call, Interviews and Proposals : The Blog Herald

Movable Type Monday: Conference Call, Interviews and Proposals : The Blog Herald — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:06:38 +0000

[...] on how Six Apart keeps their finger on the pulse. On a related note, Blogger Talks published an interview with me. Thord quizzes me on my views of the WordPress-Movable Type [...]

By: Arvind Satyanarayan

Arvind Satyanarayan — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:51:55 +0000

One link I forgot to mention when talking about Ideas/Kvetch from WordPress was this thread from the WordPress trac: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4254#comment:42. Quoting Matt:

WP has never been driven by committee, or voting, and I personally think that approach tends to create bland, soulless software.

So I’m not really sure what role those two aspects of WP.org actually play in the development of WordPress.

By: Su

Su — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:38:51 +0000

my site, obeertym.com, which is using MT4 is not indexed by google, and it has almost been two months since it was up. what can you say about that?

You seem to have some misapprenhensions about how and why Google indexes anything.
As a place to start, it is not inherently anything to do with the application you use to build your site.

By: deuts

deuts — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:11:11 +0000

my site, obeertym.com, which is using MT4 is not indexed by google, and it has almost been two months since it was up. what can you say about that?

and the templating, well till when will the MT4 community match that of WP as to the free templates?

I just wonder.

By: Byrne Reese

Byrne Reese — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:28:59 +0000

@Duncan Riley – I can’t wait for you to see MT 4.15!! The templates have become MUCH MUCH easier. When building 4.0 we over optimized for modularity and in the process made our templates too complex for people new to MT. But in 4.15 we hope to roll back to a templating system that is more intuitive for people to wrap their head around.

Take a look and tell me what you think. If MT is still not there for you, then tell me what it will take to get it there, and I will start work on it right away.

The day you start using Movable Type Duncan will be a great, great day for me!

By: Babak

Babak — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:07:16 +0000

Only WordPress !!

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:44:49 +0000

great interview and some good points. I want to switch to MT for all the reasons mention, but I still have one thing holding me back, and that’s the templating system. Simply WordPress is still the superior choice in terms of modular templates, at least for someone who isn’t a native coder. When they eventually fix this up, I’ll be shortly behind.

By: Chris Ernest Hall

Chris Ernest Hall — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:18:39 +0000

Regarding the statement ” Movable Type 4 took way too long to get out there.” Development of MT4 began in December 2006 with the aborted “Wheeljack” project (which would have been MT 3.4, and whose features were eventually folded into 4.0.) Serious development did not begin until February 2007. The product shipped in August 2007. In that eight month period we turned over ever level of the codebase, including the database abstraction layer, plugin API, user interface layer, as well as added many, many features, a feat unprecedented in my experience of software development. The question of “how long” it should take a major release is an utterly subjective, and probably uninteresting one, but by any reasonable standard, MT4 was an incredible feat of software engineering.