Movable Type 3.0 Furor

There have been quite a few rants about Movable Type 3.0 today (just take a look at the trackbacks on the official announcement ). The new pricing scheme doesn't really affect me, since it's still free for 1 author and 3 or fewer blogs. However, I've been thinking about ditching Movable Type for some time, due to general frustrations with its architecture (i.e., needing to rebuild for all changes). Movable Type 3.0 doesn't look like a huge step forward, so I'm going to start investigating alternatives in earnest. An early contender is Textpattern , which I've installed and been playing around with. Another system I'd like to investigate is Wordpress .