Obsolete my hacks. Please.
Coming soon to a Movable Type installation near you: MT 2.5 will allow you to ping blo.gs and other weblogs.com compatible services, obsoleting my hack to do it, and will stop spam-pinging weblogs.com, only pinging when an entry is first published (whether its a new entry, or newly going from draft to publish), obsoleting my didn’t work in 2.2 hack. Fantastic.
Whoa. Double-take. MT 2.5? When the current version is 2.21? Is 2.5 the fabled pay version? I hope so, in that I want to pay for MT the same way I paid for Blogger Pro, to pay for the fun I’d already had, and I donated for MT for the fun I’d had up to that point (the fun came a lot quicker with MT), but I’m not looking forward to what a branch will do for support and hacking/plugins: Blogger’s a pain because your first question for someone with a problem has to be ”Pro or Classic?” ”Pro? pro1.blogger.com, pro2.blogger.com or tps.blogger.com? Did you sign in/out at http://www.blogger.com or pro(1|2).blogger.com?” Having to say ”edit Trackback.pm, and in line 227 in 2.21 which says ’foo’ or line 324 in 2.5 which says ’bar’ …” won’t be much fun.
There is something sad and perhaps a little sadistic in a blog where it begins to ’appear’ the only replies come from the blog owner. So in hopes of returning some balance and alleviating any misunderstanding towards you Phil, I’ve posted this.
The psychology of comments is interesting, isn’t it? I hadn’t really noticed, since I was still getting comments on old entries, but you are the first person other than me to comment on a new entry in the last five days. On the other hand, a not that exciting meta-post about not using comment popups got 28 comments.
Movable Type 2.5 is coming soon
Ben and Mena posted a list of new features for MT 2.5 yesterday. Some of the Key features I’m anticipating