Everyday that I interact with a blog that uses Movable Type, especially when I try to comment or ping one, I'm glad that I switched back to WordPress because the Movable Type system of comment, rebuild, reload is revolting. Who in their right mind thought it would be efficient to have a CGI app rebuild a text file everytime that a comment or trackback is made? With WordPress, all it has to do is open a connect to the database server, send it a SQL INSERT command voi la. There is no page rebuilding because the HTML is generated on the fly and overally, it's a very fast system. Sure, Movable Type is theoretically faster, but how many Movable Type-based blogs out there actually allow trackbacks and comments once they start getting very popular? There aren't that many, except those on hosts that can really take the beating that comes from having several simultaneous attempts to rebuild the page.
I can see the argument that Movable Type kicks ass for those that want a simple engine for generating static content, but for a blog I think it is starting to get severely lacking compared to WordPress 2.0. Not being dogmatic about it, but there are just fewer and fewer reasons these days to use Movable Type.
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