Tuesday
Samizdata.net will probably be moving away from Moveable Type and to Expression Engine some time in the not too distant future. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has made this move with their own blog or who has experience using Expression Engine.
It has been obvious to us for a while that MT is groaning under the weight of Samizdata.net (the comments are agonisingly slow for example) and a full site rebuild now takes about 4 hours! We really do need to move on to something better!
I have used both, and clearly EE is miles ahead in terms of speed an efficiency. Judging by the lack of problems being reported in their forums area, I'd say they have one very stable and well thought out piece of software.
Switch as soon as you can!
Posted by Tim G at July 6, 2004 03:49 PM
Perry,
The Mrs. just installed EE on her site, and she loves it. If you need any help or input, drop her a line.
**One caveat: when allocating a post to a department, be sure to make the right choice -- as I understand it, once it's there, it's there, and you can't change it without enormous effort.**
Posted by Kim du Toit at July 6, 2004 05:07 PM
Do you mean selecting a category for an article? When titting around with our test blog that seems to just be a case of selecting or unselecting as far as I can see.
Posted by Perry de Havilland at July 6, 2004 05:14 PM
I switched from MT to EE as soon as EE came out. I had been looking at pMachine but it didn't offer enough of a benefit over MT.
Key pluses of EE
1. Extremely flexible in designing your site
2. Great separation of content and form
3. Superb support from the development team and community
4. Highly programmable
Drawbacks
1. Extremely flexible - not a lot of guidance yet as to best practices in setting it up beyond basic blog stuff (this is changing with discussions in the forums)
2. Some desirable modules not available yet (because of how new EE is)
With your 4 hour rebuild, that alone would be a determining factor for me in being able to give timely feedback (ie. you're building on a truly dynamic platform rather than pseudo-dynamic)
Go for it!
ps. Great site, keep up the good fight!
Posted by Alan McCann at July 6, 2004 08:36 PM
Well, I did use pMachine for a while (still have it installed on http://www.rajanr.com/weblog, though not using it at http://blog.rajanr.com). Really good CMS. However way to expensive for my needs - I have 200+ posts and an average of 0.5 comments per post... I'm using Nucleus (a fork rather, BLOG::CMS)
Posted by Rajan R at July 7, 2004 12:49 AM
I switched to EE back in September. The transition took only two days as EE has a built-in module to migrate MT to EE. I have never looked back. EE is so much better than MT there is simply no comparison. Several other major bloggers, like Kim Du Toit, have also recently switched over. Go for it, guys! You won't regret it.
Posted by Allan at January 30, 2005 08:10 PM
