[IxDA Discuss] Movable Type 4 (Beta)

[Christine Boese]

Oh man, all that interface does is make me miss Movable 2.x, before
the 3.0upgrade. It looks downright Vox-y.

It's probably a nostalgia thing for me, just missing the good old days, that
clean, simple gray Movable CMS, and so much freedom to play with templates
and design.

Typepad Advanced Templates blew 3.x out of the water for me (about the time
of the mass migration of Movable folks to Wordpress et. al.), and I never
felt comfortable moving the old Movable archives around after that, after
getting THOUSANDS of spam comments, even on password-protected blogs (this
was before Typekey).

I still love Six Apart, and Typepad rocks (it has business tools now, and
even the LA Times and many other publishers are using it, because the CMS
interface is so EASY TO USE), but I don't know, making Movable feel like Vox
just sort of creeps me out. Kinda like if Radio Userland stopped looking
like Radio Userland. It's just wrong.

Couldn't we pretend it's still 2003 and Movable is still the CSS blog god?

Chris



On 6/6/07, Ian Fenn <ian at chopstixmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After lurking for some time, here's my first post - and it's a question...
>
> Has anyone seen the new beta of the former blogging tool Movable Type? And
> its user interface?
>
> Download at:
> http://www.movabletype.org/
>
> Open preview (so you don't need to download/install) here:
>
> http://www.movabletype4.org/
>
> I appreciate it's a work in progress (a real beta and all) but I just look
> at the user interface and see real problems, particularly for novice users
> (those who had the application set up by a developer and just want to use
> it
> to blog).
>
> Am I alone? Anyone else have a view?
>
> All the best,
>
> --
> Ian Fenn
> Chopstix Media / Fenn Shui
>
>
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