Just upgraded to version 3.15 of Movable Type. So far so good…much easier than the first install. If you find that anything isn’t working here, please do let me know!
Quite a few reasons, the main being that MT-Blacklist v1.x died on me and I was already having to de-spam my blog almost every day anyway. MT3 gives you loads more opportunity to get rid of spam – there is a TypeKey verification facility to ensure that commenters are verified as real people, you can moderate comments before they appear on the blog and best of all MT-Blacklist v2.x can be installed, which automatically updates itself with the latest list of spammers from a master list.
There have been a few plugins that I want to install as well, one of which will allow me to host a MT-powered photo blog, which are only compatible with MT3.
What pushed you over the edge? I’m still running 2.6 but need some good reasons to upgrade.
Quite a few reasons, the main being that MT-Blacklist v1.x died on me and I was already having to de-spam my blog almost every day anyway. MT3 gives you loads more opportunity to get rid of spam – there is a TypeKey verification facility to ensure that commenters are verified as real people, you can moderate comments before they appear on the blog and best of all MT-Blacklist v2.x can be installed, which automatically updates itself with the latest list of spammers from a master list.
There have been a few plugins that I want to install as well, one of which will allow me to host a MT-powered photo blog, which are only compatible with MT3.
Definitely worth upgrading.
Hmmmm… that all sounds pretty good. Especially the spam prevention stuff.