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In the 2003 to 2007 period, a couple of blogs I follow (whatever.scalzi.com , Brad Delong) all had constant technical problems with MT. http://www.scalzi.com/w
by earl 16y ago
In the 2003 to 2007 period, a couple of blogs I follow (whatever.scalzi.com , Brad Delong) all had constant technical problems with MT.
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004350.html http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004350.html
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/15/ http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/15/
Or BradD, who has no fewer than EIGHT MT installs to try to get their shit software to work.
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/10/housekeeping-mo.html http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/10/housekeeping-mo.html
Wordpress won because, reason 0, it actually worked and didn't break all the fucking time. Particularly for enduser software, people severely underrate code that isn't brittle shit that breaks if you look at it cross eyed.
- callmeed 16y agoI'm not that familiar with MT–does it break because of it's code or because of how it's setup/deployed with Perl? I agree with your point, but I think being built on PHP was also a big factor in WP winning.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoFrom my own experience in trying to set it up, the hardest part for me was setting it up to correctly generate all the static HTML pages and get them to correctly post to Perl CGI forms for things like comments that would then trigger a regeneration of the static HTML. It always struck me as an extremely fragile setup. Oh, and the theming ecosystem was non-existent compared to Wordpress.