well i completed my upgrade to movabletype 3.0d. it was painful for a number of reasons, the biggest being that i am running on an iis server. i had lots of trouble getting my database to migrate over. if you have a lot of posts then be sure to use a web browser that has a long timeout period as it can take a really really long time to convert all of the database files. if it dies in the middle of the conversion, which it did a few times on me, then who knows what ya have then. my biggest suggestion to anyone upgrading is to back up your database a few times before you start this process.


my reasoning behind this upgrade is that i wanted the new administration controls over the site that 3.0d offers, but most of all i’ve been getting hammered with 20-30 spam per day and mt-blacklist wasn’t handling the job cleanly. plus the manual task of having to go clean them out was a pain in the butt. plus, if i didn’t have time the bad porn comments would be sitting on my site for a few days. i wanted to be able to control who was commenting or at least be more comfortable that they were being screened by me or typekey. no, i won’t close the comments up and i won’t be a comment nazi, i just don’t want people putting porn and other crap on my blog.


anyhow, there may still be some tweaks i need to make to my templates, but i’ll fix em as i find em. for now, you shouldn’t see any changes except in comment posting. there is a small but with iis and movabletype not setting typepad cookies right but the moderated comments should work fine. anyhow, i should be returning to regular posting now. it took a while to get the conversion done.