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CT has switched platforms from MovableType to WordPress

Keiran adds

it should be the end of double- triple- or even duodecuple-posted comments. These were becoming an embarrassing CT hallmark, thanks to our outdated installation of MovableType and way too much server load. Trackback spam and other blogging bugaboos should also become easier to manage.

I’m impressed with how little the look of the site changed . . . .


And this from Brad DeLong:

Moving Day…:

Now that internet mountain man Chuq van Rospach and Crooked Timber have abandoned Movable Type, it seems to me that there is no reason why I should be running my own weblog on my own office computer.

So it’s time for me, too, to pull up stakes and move. Let’s try TypePad first and see how it does…

I’ll keep the old front page at http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/index_a.html for a while…

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