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Whew: MT 3.0
Allrighty then, ai is now running on MT 3.0. Thanks again to Falconred for helping make this upgrade possible. Advice to anyone planning to upgrade: If you're already running MT, be sure you download and install the upgrade version of MT 3.0 rather than the full version. I didn't pay enough attention and copied the full version right over the old version, meaning I erased my config files and basically broke my MT installation. After a little hair-pulling and searching through the documentation, I think everything should be in working order now.
Matt asked what's new, but I'm afraid I don't have much to offer there. So far the big new thing is the stuff having to do with TypeKey. Other than that, the interface is shiny and new looking, but functionally unchanged (at least as far as I can tell). Others have reviewed MT 3.0 at some length, and you can see from the guide to new features that there really aren't many. So I paid and upgraded why? I guess because I could. As L always teases me, I always have to be "in the new" when it comes to things like this.
UPDATE: It looks like the upgrade broke something in the comments system. Right now, if you type a comment and click "post," your comment really will be posted, but it won't show up on the page. It will be emailed to me, and it will be added to the system, it just won't publish for some reason. I'll have to look into this another time—tomorrow evening, perhaps. For the time being, if you'd like to comment you can do so knowing that I'll see your comment via email but it won't actually show up on the page until I get this fixed.
Posted June 27, 2004 06:50 PM | meta-blogging
No problem! I may upgrade myself but since I'm going the free route I may wait until there's more features.
Posted by: falconred at June 27, 2004 08:12 PM
No problem!
Posted by: falconred at June 27, 2004 08:13 PM
This is a test. Do comments work in MT 3.0?
Posted by: ambimb at June 27, 2004 10:09 PM
Testing again. Do comments work now after deleting MT-Blacklist? (It's not compatible w/MT 3.0 but I can't find documentation anywhere telling me what to do about that; I just deleted all files related to Blacklist, so we'll see how that works.)
Posted by: ambimb at June 28, 2004 06:18 AM
If you can see this, comments work...
Posted by: falconred at June 29, 2004 12:56 AM
Thanks, falconred. Things seem to be in working order again. The error message I was getting was apparently related to the MT-Amazon and Bookqueue plugins that run the booklist in the sidebar. So, for the record, the upgrade to MT 3.0 didn't break the comments; it was all Amazon's fault.
That Amazon screwup happens frequently, and I'd rather support Powells or some more independent bookstore, anyway. Does anyone know of a good alternative to the MT-Amazon and Bookqueue plugins -- something that would give a similar functionality, but w/out relying on Amazon?
Posted by: ambimb at June 29, 2004 06:09 AM
