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List:       mtos-dev
Subject:    Re: [MTOS-dev] MT5 Feedback
From:       Jun Kaneko <jkaneko () sixapart ! com>
Date:       2009-09-27 3:07:05
Message-ID: E2859072-C34F-4643-B353-675A58786F56 () sixapart ! com
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Hello !

I uploaded the MT5 presentation to slideshare.

http://www.slideshare.net/goodpic/movable-type-5-beta

I believe that Movable Type (4) is a very sophisticated platform  
already.
You can do anything if you know how to write plugins, hack templates,  
etc...
MT5 is definitely the one "standing on the shoulders of giants" in MT  
history.
So what's new on MT5 ?

* Website helps you to build the proper site structure.
* Theme helps you to package your design that includes not only  
templates
      but also files, categories, folders, and custom fields.
* User dashboard helps you to design MT as "your application".
* Revision History protects you from an accidental modification.

Maybe you could already do these things on MT4 if you were the expert,
but I wish that everybody takes a step forward to those deep MT world.
MT5 is for you to design, create, and share your idea on your websites  
development.
MT5 is the platform to share your best practice !

There will be a lot of usability improvement on Beta 3
based on your Beta feedbacks.

http://bugs.movabletype.org/default.asp?pre=preMultiSearch&pg=pgList&pgBack=pgSearch&search=2&searchFor=UI+OrderBy%3AOpened


Including the better upgrade process that Beau mentioned.

http://bugs.movabletype.org/default.asp?102466

I appreciate all of your feedbacks !

Jun Kaneko
jkaneko@sixapart.com



On 2009/09/26, at 21:15, Toni Mueller wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> after all the flurry in this thread, I briefly test-drove MT5b2. Here
> is my feedback so far:
> 
> 
> First impression: The backend now looks remarkably similar to WP.
> 
> I'm not yet sure why I should like this better than the MT4 backend.
> 
> 
> 
> Second impression:
> 
> The naming is a bit weird, imho. What's a "classic website", or a
> "professional website"? Is the "classic website" not professional, or
> why would one chose it over the "professional website"?
> 
> I created a "professional website", and then a blog to nest into it,
> but I wanted the name of the blog to be reflected in the URL. Ok... so
> I got a blog, but this was only accessible by hand-entering the URL,  
> or
> clicking into the right column at "blogs". To have the URL reflected  
> in
> the top navigation, I had to edit a template, which took me some time
> to find. This makes me ask "what is the use case for this?". If one  
> has
> only one blog, the URL could be adjusted automatically. If one has a
> plethora of blogs, they won't fit into the top navigation, no matter
> what, but also probably easily make the right box unwieldy.
> 
> When creating the blog, I got the "classic blog" theme as a default.
> While I generally like this theme, it creates a strong visual break
> when compared to the theme of the main site.
> 
> 
> OT:
> 
> I would like to see an offline-upgrade program that I can easily call
> from a script, as a hoster, and w/o needing to know the passwords of
> the sites, to upgrade MT sites. If it had a "dry-run" mode that only
> gives me an estimate about what would break, that would be even
> greater.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> --Toni++
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