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December 28, 2010

Finally upgraded to MT 5 ()

by fluffy at 8:18 PM
It took me freaking long enough but I've finally taken the plunge and converted my sites to Movable Type 5, up from the ancient 3.x I was running previously. This is a test post to see how badly everything is broken. (I suspect I'm going to have to spend a lot of time fixing my templates. Although so far things seem to be working surprisingly well!)

Holy cats do I hate this new user interface, though. It's like they decided that WordPress wasn't quite stupid enough and that they'd turn up the suck to 11.

Oh and I really don't appreciate it "fixing" my "broken" HTML. A bare <p> is perfectly fine in plain HTML. I'm not writing XHTML here. Maybe this will finally get me to stop being a curmudgeon and just start using the rich text editor, although I hate those.

Comments

#13699 12/28/2010 08:40 pm
Okay, there are definitely some nice features about it. The fact that a site is a collection of blogs and pages is nice. Now I can finally provide a unified RSS feed easily, for example. Also, I suspect the new comment engine is pretty good, although probably still doesn't have what I need to support friends-only entries, so I'm going to stick with the crap that is phpBB for now.

I am of course quite tempted to redo all my templates and make use of the new functionality, especially finally switching to the real PHP support instead of the ad-hoc template-based PHP crap I've been doing for years, but then I remember how lazy I am.

Oh, and the rich text editor really sucks for anything other than treating it like a fancy word processor. I have custom div styles for a reason, and I'd rather be allowed to keep using those. Sigh.
#13704 12/30/2010 11:15 am
Something about the new UI has made it seem much more natural to finally move to the "convert line breaks" formatting, at least for the blog.