OK, you love your new blog-engine. Now, how about telling the rest of us who are still on Six Apart’s engines why the change was necessary. If you don’t want to publish the answers, email them to me.

I’ve noticed a serious slowdown in TypePad recently, and there were times recently when their server was obviously down completely.

Something’s happening over there, but I’m not savvy enough to figure it out just from the symptoms. I’ve heard shadowy references of their troubles from other bloggers.

I don’t know that it’s anything shadowy or nefarious. It’s just that MT is no longer Ben & Mina’s baby. With the birth of TypePad, Six Apart transformed into a corporate structure with a board of directors, financing, and a lot of ambitions. They’re trying to aggressively grow, to refine their program, and to position themselves as the undisputed leader in the blogging software market. I think that’s great, but it’s not what we – the folks who’d been using MT previously – expected.

(Come to think of it, I remember hearing and making the same type of grumblings way back when me and all my BBS buddies had to scramble to make the change from using DOS commands at a prompt to clicking cute little icon pictures because some upstart guy named Bill decided he had a plan, too.)

Anyway.

I changed from MT because it was feeling too bloated, because I like having my CSS and XHTML validate, because I don’t like reading through poorly written licensing, because I want to know I can always build my own hacks if I take the time to sit down and think through them, because it was hogging my disk space, because I didn’t like waiting 5 minutes for my indexes to rebuild, and because I like trying new things.

Then again, I explained all of that previously.

What took the upgrade so long? I was expecting you back at least five minutes sooner.

I [heart] WP.