I swear to Christ, if I hear the phrase “nominal fee” one more goddamn time…
So I know “being pissed at 6A” isn’t exactly news right now, but I’m posting this anyway for those of you who aren’t geeky and didn’t catch this.
Six Apart (the up-until-now fucking amazing Ben and Mena Trott, developers of Movable Type, the program used to generate the site you’re staring at now) released the details of their new pricing scheme for version 3. Instead of releasing some sort of completely free alternative, as in the 2.x series, they decided to limit the free version’s number of blogs to 1, thus making it completely useless on badstuff.net. (That is, short of an anonymous benefactor dropping from the sky with wads of cash, and even then, with the way 6A has treated their beta testers, I don’t think I would want to buy their product EVER.)
“Nominal fee” for a business and “nominal fee” for a home user aren’t even in the same fucking ballpark, folks. I call a nominal fee “anything under ten bucks.” If it’s more expensive than that, I have to think about it, folks. Not everybody has a good job. I run this site for my college-student friends and I’m not gonna fucking deal with their horseshit pricing structure. I don’t need world-class support, I don’t need to be listed on their shitty blogs-updated page, I just need software that works when I tell it to work because I’m sick to death of Windows-style software that does what it wants to do on its own time. And I am certainly not going to put up with dealing with the hassle of registering my goddamn blogging software.
Fucking hell, $70 a year is more than I pay to host this site.
Since all the BSN blogs have been running their fucking ads since day one, I’m a little pissed. They aren’t even acknowledging the fact that most of their users are using their software to run little free blogs all over the whole Net. They don’t seem to care. And in return, I don’t care if I run their software ever again, for anything. If you have suggestions for any good CMS that I can use to replace MT, let me know. Two stipulations: no WordPress, unless you can tell me how to make it run more than one blog from a single installation. No non-free software, I’m not gonna do this again.