GearBits

Movable Type Goes Money-Grubbing

According to Mashby, Six Apart, makers of the nice blog software Movable Type (which powers this site), has started charging enormous fees for the next version of its software.

These fees are such that, since I make no money from GearBits, I can't justify upgrading to the next version of MT. Without upgrading, the options available to us to limit comment spam (a real scourge to blogging) are few and limited. We'll be weighing our options, but this could be the end of GearBits.

I'm turning comments back on now and we'll see how things go.