Comments on: New Project to Find Movable Type Community’s Melody

By: Su

Su — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:06:36 +0000

MT does not even have a decent blogroll module since MT4 was released.

By: dustbury.com » Because competition is good for you

dustbury.com » Because competition is good for you — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:57 +0000

[...] Automattic, which makes him only slightly less a WordPress guy than Matt Mullenweg himself — welcomes the arrival of an open-source rival: Melody is a new WordPress competitor — bring [...]

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:56:16 +0000

I used to use MT and as I remember, MT lost out in the fight against spam in 2004 and 2005, in which migration from Blogger to MT slowed down because MT blogs were being snowed under with spam. I was having to close TB’s and even comments for hours at a time because of this, and had to move hosts when a run on my mt-tb script led to my host taking my whole site offline. When WP 1.5 introduced its two-level word blocking system, people started migrating to WP from both Blogger and MT. MT has always been a pretty solid CMS, but the community lost a lot of mindshare and the range of third-party themes and plugins are nothing like those available for Wordpress. MT does not even have a decent blogroll module since MT4 was released. As a personal blogging platform, MT is no match for Wordpress.

By: Phil Barron

Phil Barron — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:55 +0000

Haven’t been here in a while. I like the look.

Interesting news about Melody – though it seems to be more about process than product – and a formidable group behind it.

I do think that a free collaborative platform, if this is what’s being discussed here (ala Scoop), is the only thing missing from WordPress. BuddyPress doesn’t seem to me to be that platform (actually, I’ve been unclear as to what BuddyPress is actually supposed to do!).

Yes – “collaborative publishing” as opposed to “community powered publishing.”