MT Usage

The lovely people at Six Apart have asked movable type users to expound on how they use MT. So with out further ado…

We currently run the following blogs using Movable type:

1. Our main site: Hugin and Munin and our Photoblog: We also have a Blog that is used for archival purposes, in such it does not count towards the active blog clause, and a private unpublished blog that is used that we use for our own thoughts. Each of these has Hugin and myself listed as the authors.

2.We are currently also hosting 4 other blogs, with a total of 5 authors, for friends and family. Two of these are low traffic blogs, which appear on the public domain, and are open to all. The other two are private blogs for friends who are abroad, and are used as a way to keep in touch with their family and friends. These is a password protect, and do not appear on the public domain.

3. Occasionally I will set up a test blog, which I use to test out various schemes and plugins before implementing those changes into existing blogs.

4. Finally we are hoping to add a group blog with about 6-8 users for a bunch of friends in the near future.

Adding all of the above brings us up to a grand total of 8 blogs and 7 authors (9 blogs if you count the test blogs and a hell of a lot more authors if you count the number of times I add myself to a blog for config. purposes] with a possibility of 9 blogs and 15 users in the near future. All the sites listed above are personal sites and all are non-commercial, non-profit sites that do not make any money.

Looking at the current licensing scheme, this would mean that we would have to shell out $119.00 ($164.00 Canadian) minus the donation we have made in the past right now or $149.95 with a possibility of paying $169.95 ($232.98 Canadian) in the future if we set up the group blog.

I love using movable type, and would be happy to pay for MT. But I find the current prices to be a little steep and, to put it frankly; I will not be able to afford them if we ever make the switch from 2.661 to 3.0.

[If asked what we would be willing to pay, we would be more then happy to shell out 50 to 60 USD, for unfettered use of movable type, or a licensing scheme that wasn't so restrictive or costly.[Something along the lines of 5$ for a blog and author]]