if your into blogging you likely saw news earlier this week about sixapart changing their usage policy of their movabletype blogging tool. they’re changing the terms from a free usage policy, with donations accepted, to an overpriced tool that hasn’t seen a decent feature added in a few years. they released the news on their (in)appropriately entitled blog, “it’s about time”. lets just say people were less than pleased with the changes. yes, movabletype is one of the most popular blogging tools on the market but i’d be willing to bet that’ll be changing soon.


i personally use movabletype for two blogs, my wife uses it, and i have a few private less known blogs. if i were to go forth and throw sixapart some of my cash i’d owe them around $99.95 for the same exact features that i’m currently receiving for free. i find it very troubling that they’re sticking their hands out without having innovated or added a new feature since i started using movabletype almost two years ago. it would be different if i felt like they were progressing their feature set, but that’s far from the truth. don’t take get me wrong, i’m happy to support software developers that have applications i use and enjoy. i’ve done it with net news wire, unison, omnioutliner, and many others … heck i even donated to sixapart when i first started using movabletype. i just have a certain standard that sixapart hasn’t met with this new 3.0 release or the past few releases for that matter.


thus begins my search for a movable type replacement, stay tuned for all of the fun. maybe i’ll throw a redesign in at the same time.