Thanks for checking in. Upon visiting your page, I realized who you are, and it’s very refreshing to see someone involved in a company take a personal interest in the happiness of their customers.

As far as the reason I’m switching - it’s really nothing against MT as it is for textpattern. I’ve been looking for a lightweight, open source replacement for MT for a while now, but wordpress didn’t match up in my opinion. So, with that said, I’ll just name some of the things I like about txp versus MT:

Easier syntax. I’ve been using MT for a while now, and while I’m no expert, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on a lot of the syntax to get what I want out of it. However, I’ve been looking for a simpler implementation of a CMS for some time now, and I feel txp is just that.

Uses mySQL. I wanted to use a CMS that used an actual database, versus the style MT uses. In the rare event of a system failure, it’s a lot easier to restore a database and a config file than it is to have the entire MT directory backed up.

Rebuilding. This is my main problem with Movable Type, and my assumption is that this directly relates to my above mention of the lack of a *true* database being used.

Again, I’m no expert so maybe MT offers some of the same things that txp does. But I’ve been looking for an open source cms that is a bit lighter for some time now, and with RC3 of textpattern on the horizon, I finally feel I should start making the switch. I really thank you for stopping by here … I’m quite surprised you found this post as quickly as you did, honestly!