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I get the sense that the last people using MT will be people developing for it, as if that was the point of a publishing platform.
Do I have an axe to grind with MovableType/6Apart? No, I don’t: I would never have played with this whole weblogging thing if it hadn’t been for MT. It was easy to set up and use: what else can a beginner ask for? But over time, it became obvious that it wasn’t going to work over the long term. I won’t rehash the problems I ran into (they’re all archived here) but WordPress made them all go away. When I see sites like Crooked Timber and now Ed Felten moving to WP, I realize it wasn’t just me.
It really makes me wonder what happens when someone has the First Mover position and doesn’t move with the times. They neither want nor need my advice, I suppose: to take a spare-room coding project and sell a stake in it for $11 million (I don’t know where I saw this?), all the while building a business with a monthly revenue stream (TypePad), suggests they know a few things I don’t. But even now, with MT 3.1.x out — one assumes the dust from 3.0 has settled — more and more thought leaders are moving away from MT.
As I say, they know something(s) I don’t but I still don’t get the wisdom of ceding marketshare when it would be so easy not to.