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It's funny how these things linger on, quietly being used because they mostly just work and don't cause the people using them any real problems. I think Daring
by bshimmin 9y ago
It's funny how these things linger on, quietly being used because they mostly just work and don't cause the people using them any real problems. I think Daring Fireball and Kottke.org both still use Movable Type, which, having just checked on their web site, does definitely still exist and appears to have been quite regularly updated until at least 2014 (the releases for the last few years appear mostly to be bugfixes and security updates). Movable Type was the hot thing in self-hosted blogging circles in the early 2000s and predates WordPress by a good few years.
- dasil003 9y agoThere's an added mystique around TextPattern because it was initially written by Dean Allen of Textism/Textile/TextDrive fame, and he has subsequently disappeared from the Internet, taking with him his blog, Textile lost to Markdown, and of course TextDrive famously got co-opted by greedy tech douchebags, eventually turning into Joyent and getting acquired by Samsung. So it's quite remarkable that of all Dean Allen's works, TextPattern is the one that keeps on chugging along with its open-source essence intact.