confessions
I have a confession to make. I'm thinking of moving my weblog to MovableType. I've been playing quite a bit with MT behind the scenes and it is really quite good. I like the default look quite a lot. I really would like to make my weblog my own but I lack the imagination to do it. So I need a good default look. MT has that. Also MT supports the Blogger API. That's important as I want to be able to update my weblog with Radio Poster. If and when I switch that will become Weblog Poster :) Radio Poster doesn't yet support the Blogger API. Only the MetaWeblog API. And Radio is the only weblog tool that understands that API. But Radio Poster will soon speak Blogger API as well (soon, as in the next couple of days). Then all I'd need would be to dump out all of my Radio posts and feed them into MT.
So why would I make such a move? Two reasons. I'm worried about having my weblog on UserLand's server. I only get a fixed amount of disk space and I don't really know what happens once I've used it up. I don't have to do it that way, of course. Radio supports upstreaming to my own FTP server. But if I did that then what is the point of Radio. There is a point, of course. It is very easy to set up. Much easier than MovableType. But I've set up MT on my own server, so the hard part is done. Also, there are other features of Radio that are cool, but I don't use them. I don't use the news aggregator. I don't use Instant Outlining (why is the subject of another post). I won't be losing much by making the switch.
The second reason for moving is that there is a bug in Radio that prevents my weblog from correctly upstreaming. If you post to your weblog using anything but the desktop web page (for example, posts using the blogger API and the metaweblog API) then your archive files do not upstream. One post from your desktop web page fixes things, but I don't want to have to ever post from that desktop web page again. And UserLand seems to be ignoring my pleas to fix the bug. I've looked at the code and I'm thinking it is a one-line fix. They could fix it in, like, five minutes. Heck, I could probably fix it. I've tried everything I can think of to bring it to their attention. I've posted to the Radio discussion group. I've even sent email to Dave directly. It isn't working. So I'm thinking of jumping ship. I consider it to be a major bug. A showstopper, as they say.
I haven't made my final decision, but I'm close. I had planned to stay a year, at least, as I've already paid my $40. But I'm not sure it's worth it. My weblog has become very important to me and I want it to work correctly.
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