What is status on Movable Type 3 exodus?

Doomed.

Technically, there's no problem.

Non-technically, I don't think we can do it. The new license precludes you from using it for a "hosting service", and I'm pretty sure that munu would count as such. (Expression Engine has the same license restriction, and I was told that I wouldn't be able to use it.)

We're going to have to move to another blogging package. Unfortunately, multi-blog support in the open-source world absolutely sucks.

Suggestions are very welcome.

P.S. I am still working on Minx, but now with MySQL rather than Metakit. Problems with Metakit killed the earlier version of Minx. MySQL has no such problems.

But since it's taken me so long to get going with this, I'm not making any predictions about when it will be ready. So if anyone knows of an existing package that will do the job, I'm all ears.

Guessing Wordpress sucked?

Standard Wordpress doesn't support multiple blogs. There's another version, Wordpress Mu, which does - but it's not ready for prime time. It would be easier for me to finish Minx than to hack Wordpress Mu into something that will work for us.

The nicest blogging systems I've seen are Pivot and Texpattern. Of course, neither one supports multiple blogs...

The reason that multi-blog support is critical is that we currently have close to 200 blogs, and that number is going to keep growing. With Wordpress (or something like it), we'd have 200 installations of the software and 200 databases, which would be a maintenance nightmare.

I think they changed the criteria a bit with the last re-pricing. It looks like the only criteria that separates personal and business sites is the intent to make money. That's beside incidentals like GoogleAds, etc, too.

There's that, but there's a whole 'nother problem with running a hosting service. You can't even use the business version for that.

And they don't define "hosting service", which really doesn't help.

Those stinking rat bastards. Grrrr.

Well, it was pretty much a given once they started up TypePad. A service like that is much more profitable than selling MT at $100 a pop. But I wish they would define "hosting service"...