So I am in the process of moving my old weblog to this location. It was formerly running an ancient version of MovableType — 2.5 — and for a while I had been inundated with unchecked comment and trackback spam.
Well, MT2.5 isn’t all that keen on mass-deleting comment and TB spam, so I thought I’d just export the weblog and try to process it all at some other point in time. With 8MB of TB spam, exporting the entire blog to a text file isn’t something I want to tackle right now.
Anyway, I looked into upgrading 2.5 to the latest version, 3.2 or whatever. I head over to movabletype.org and get redirected to the SixApart website. I knew they went “corporate,” but damn!
Looking at my upgrade options, there’s about 50 different versions, and the basic personal license is freaking seventy dollars! So I go and track down the peon “free” version, which supports something like one author, and you have to agree to some licensing terms, etc. I agree, and YEARRRGGH!! I need to login!?!?
Oh man. Anyway. The last thing I need is a damn account on a website. Just let me freaking download your free software without a login. Please.