Well, this has sure got the blogosphere in an uproar.
I just got my notice of admission to the beta test on Tuesday. I hadn't even had time to download it and install it anywhere yet, and it's gone "live," at least the developer version.
Will Six Apart lower their pricing? While a lot of people are hoping for it, I really don't think it'll happen. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, it is going to kill gaming blogs. Yes, if I upgrade, I'm going to have to pull some of my blogs. But many of them are inactive. I can easily just save the HTML pages and delete the blog, then upload the pages back as static sites. (for example, the Weight Watchers Blog is now defunct, and I was just keeping the pages up for reference.)
I did contribute to MT back in the day. Pre 2.0, possibly. But right now, and within the foreseeable future, I can't afford the $49.95 that it will cost me to keep the semi-active blogs I have and remove some of the authors. And there's no way I'll be paying $99.95 just to keep all the authors I currently have.
My personal thoughts is that the amount of authors/blogs is on the small side, at least for the collaboratory stuff a lot of us were/are doing. But I don't know that we're the typical blogger user, which probably is one author, one blog.
I wish Ben and Mena the best of luck with Six Apart. And lots of drinks to drown out the shouts of outrage.
Comments (1)
There are a lot of collaborative blogs, actually--the ability to add blogs and users is a great strength of MT. But the pricing is going to kill that.
Posted by Ginger | May 14, 2004 4:34 PM
Posted on May 14, 2004 16:34