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Comment by steveklabnik | Hacker News Reader

While I agree with you... what to use instead? It seems that all the other CMS/blogging platforms have the same issues...

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Static site generators using Disqus for comments seem to be quite popular in certain circles.

It's true, I used to use Jekyll myself. Unfortunately, this won't work for the site I'm building for my girlfriend's father...

I gave my GF's mother a weebly site. She loves it.

My father is now running his site on Weebly too, and he thinks it's fantastic.

I use WordPress + wget as a static site generator for a client of mine. Works wonders. :)

Headed to Refresh Pittsburgh tonight? There's a presentation about WP3.

Iiiinteresting. That sounds terrible... but awesome.

I didn't know it was happening tonight. Maybe. We'll see. I've been on a roll with Hackety Hack lately, and I want to make sure I have a few hours to put in.

Whoa, someone else from Pittsburgh? I've been looking for hackers/tech culture around Pittsburgh and haven't managed to find too much so far. I think I will check this out tonight.

http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/

There are events pretty much every month, but I haven't made any in a while this will be my first Refresh Pittsburgh all year. Make sure ya say hello to this guy: http://bit.ly/9jELdY (me)

Might want to add RefreshPittsburgh, Devhouse Pittsburgh and Dorkbot Pittsburgh to the events calendar, too.

Check out my project, http://pghtechevents.com/ ;)

MovableType seems to not have as many issues.

Just because there aren't as many known exploits for MT doesn't mean it's more secure than WP. That's the same argument used when people say Apple software is more secure than Microsoft software. Yet if Apple software was used by more than 90%+ of businesses, it's likely more people would attempt to (and possibly find ways to) hack it.

Security aside, MT has lots of issues -- performance (or lack thereof) being one of them and bad upgrades being another. After the third time an upgrade broke some sites I manage, I gave up and migrated some sites to WordPress and some to Drupal. Have yet to come across the same issue.

MT does not disclose many security issues and instead slips fixes quietly into new releases.

It also seems to have not as many users.

I'll take that over constantly having to upgrade my install or recovering from being hacked.

Really? You will take a less vibrant, less helpful, and less forward-moving community over WP because you cant set it up right?

How forward-moving do you need a system that allows you to manage content within site templates to be?

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