Spit And Polish

That said, I finally just upgraded from MT3 to MT4, and man, this is a mighty nice interface. Not a bad installation process, either--if you can figure out what your SQL database name and userid are (I could just barely remember from the original installation process) and know how to drag files from one FTP directory to another to deal with error messages, you can do a safe clean install in no time flat.

I'm not sure I'm getting a lot of new functionality out of it other than a built-in spellchecker (which hurts my pride to use), but maybe this will draw me back to ol' grey a little more often.

Update: okay, comments are borked. I'm grateful to Six Apart for its policy that templates are "sacrosanct" in that I don't want them to mess with the specific configurations I've set up...but I want them to mess with the specific configurations I've set up! I have a comment system that's completely reliant on obsolete technology; now that OpenID allows us to authenticate comments with just about any major system, I want to strip all that junk out and add their plain and simple default comment stuff. How do I do that, though? I don't see a way of accessing the comment templates at all in MT4.

Update 2: pardon the mess for a while as I try to start from scratch (no option for refreshing some of the templates, I'm afraid...).

Update 3: OK, what's with this shit? New users might be well served by this update, but even after several years on MT I can't figure out a damned thing. The Six Apart people need to be torn from CSS and modules like addicts from the crack pipe--how many individual pages do I have to edit to get the goddamned OpenID comment registrations to work? This is something that's supposed to be turned on by a single fucking radio button. Jesus, guys. Triple your tech writing budget and get back to us.

Update 4: free drinks and/or blowjobs for whoever gets comments running again for me. Whaddya say?