About.com to Wordpress
A couple of years ago Six Apart, makers of the blogging software Movable Type, “announced”:http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2003/07/aboutcom_powere.html that “About.com”:http://www.about.com was using Movable Type to manage all of their sites. This was a huge deal at the time for the young company.
Today Matt Mullenweg “announced”:http://photomatt.net/2005/12/07/about-switching/ that About.com was switching over to Wordpress. Ouch.
I’ve been a Movable Type user (and plugin developer) for 3 years and a Wordpress user (not on here yet) for a few months and I can honestly say I like Wordpress way more. It’s just so damn elegant.
Dang … I must have been asleep — when did you switch to Wordpress? Was there a post about it?
Two Milestones in Programming Trends
About.com, the most prominent site to import their content into Movable Type is switching to Wordpress. Ruby’s popularity, as measured…
I’m still using MT on here, but am using WP at http://knives.itemblogs.com and http://tools.itemblogs.com