Well, I've been looking forward to the release of Movable Type 3.0 for a long time. Unfortunately it looks like I won't be upgrading, at least not immediately. I run 6 blogs off this website, 5 for myself, a couple of which are related to designing Movable Type templates. I also have one which I run for my brother. I don't use my real name on all my websites, so it also means that I have 4 authors. I could pare that down to three though. And I suppose I could delete one of the weblogs too, to bring it down to 5. Even with the revised price structure it would still mean I would have to buy a 'Personal Edition' license for $69.95 (special introductory offer only, regular $99.95). That's almost $100 Canadian dollars, which is about what I pay for webhosting for a year. Overall, that doubles the cost of my current websites.

Besides, I haven't really figured out what there is in 3.0 that is really important to me. 2.6 has lots of irritating features, like the rebuild feature, and the fact that deleted entries and weblogs still muddy up the server. I'm not sure if any of that is fixed in 3.0, at least I can't find anything about it in the extensive lit on the website.

There's a lot of rhetoric about their commitment to developers, but there's little rhetoric about their commitment to their actual users, the grassroots support that has made MT the successful phenomenon it has become.

So, yeah, I'm bummed. It's not that I'm not willing to pay for the service, but I think $29.95 would be about my limit. That's already $50 Canadian. And the fact is, there are enough free options out there that I don't have to upgrade.