It took 4 hours to rebuild the archives but everything seems to be working. The rebuild only occurred on part of the archives last night, hence why some pages no longer existed. (I hate to think what the other blogs with 4000+ entries and such will take.)
And for those of you who've been emailing me about comments... they aren't broken. They are just not the same as before.
Back in the day, comment and trackback spam were horrible blog problems and I used the best hacks around at the time to prevent them from queuing up. Since it was a hack, it broke part of MT's authentication and comment options.
That's all operational again.
So... some of you who I've known for years are trusted commenters, some of you get queued for approval, and others will get trusted as they resign in and post for the first time. Some comments, if not relative, will get trashed.
And no... there's no anonymous commenting anymore.
Well signed up for a live journal so I could comment. I've been lazy and tried blogging before on blogger but just couldn't get into it. Perhaps now that I have a nice phone with a qwerty keyboard maybe i'll do it more often.
So Nala of the blog I ask you this what have you tried and liked the most of all the blog software? I have a website of my own that I play around with and would be nice to find a way to integrate the blog content with the site.
the site is hosted though my ISP, not sure I care enough to get it's own webhost at this point so will likely go with a lazy option to get started and move up from there.
I have been a strict Movable Type user since 2001. I think it was version 1.3 or something.
I've never been a fan of the "hosted" solutions like Blogger, blogspot or Livejournal, but many of them are now owned by the Six Apart (who makes Moveable Type and TypePad) or the big media conglomerates.
I've had my own hosting space in some form or another since the mid 90s and have owned my domains as well.
Since I run several different blogs, I prefer to actually install and host the software myself and that's why I went with Movable Type way back when.
However, before Six Apart went after the enterprise market, they software and customization used to be a lot easier to manage.
The jump from version 3.2 (what the crack was previously run on) and 4.1 (now) is a HUGE leap!
So much has changed that it will take me quite a while to relearn the system, especially the way one integrates the custom design stuff with the way the blog generates.
However, one of the benefits of the new version is that I can finally take more control of the commenting and authentication, as well as treating plain old site pages, like my collection pages, as part of the blog and managed by the blog software.
They've also implemented all kinds of digital asset management, so I can begin to fold my photographs into my site and control them from here as opposed to just pulling them in from my Flickr galleries. There's also other media managent for podcasting and stuff like that too.
Basically, it has grown from a basic text management system to a full blown content management system.
Unfortunately, along the way, I've never had time to learn and/or relearn the intermediate versions so this new one is going to basically force me to learn the ins and outs. When I'll find the time to do it I have no idea. (I stayed up like 3 hours after my normal bedtime just to get the software installed. That has killed me all day today.)
I'd start with a hosted service or use Wordpress if possible. Learn the ins and outs of working with something that you don't actually manage.
Then, if you have the extra cash, get a simple hosting plan, register a personal domain, and then run your own site. You'll learn along the way and make mistakes, but as long as you back up your data you can always reset things.
Personally, I'm a fan of Dreamhost. I use it for most of my sites and I know they have a lot of simple things that any level of user can install... like Wordpress and all.
If I find the time I plan on moving my video stuff locally too since I can stream both audio and video from my hosting. They even provide all kinds of simple to use server based conversion to Flash media formats so I don't even have to do the stuff on the desktop and yet I'll still end up with an easy to use You Tube like format.
Good luck on the upgrades!
Could be worse--you could be trying to teach yourself PHP from scratch, like this idiot over here is doing...I don't think I knew what I was getting into.
Everytime I start I end up abandoning it.
Okay I looked at Wordpress and Blogger (since my old blog was there) and neither offer posts using SMS.
Figure it's a neat enough feature while I'm out and about to do from time to time since I have a nice phone to use the feature.
So does MT4 let you do that? It looks like it does but then I'd have to manage the system myself. Perhaps I should look to that route down the road if I want to integrate blog with website. Might be the modivation to actually get my act in gear and work on website work more to show off my writing.
Don't know really.