After delaying it for a long time, I've finally upgraded to Movable Type v3.14. The upgrade went as planned without any problems, as far as the MT side goes. Everything appears to be working as it should, I've probably got some changes to make and some that I had wanted to do anyway so will work on getting those done soon since I've got more free time than usual, for a while at least.
I'm having a few problems with getting the latest version of MT Blacklist running correctly, but that might be down to me and the fact I've been up all night and could probably do with some sleep now. I'll continue with that and the other changes and updates later.
The main thing is I'm now able to enjoy one of the features of MT v3 that I've been looking forward to which is forced comment moderation, especially since MT-BL is not working right now and also the fact of all the recent "junk" spam, it'll save me having to delete a load of spam, since it'll never even make it to the live pages now and can sit in moderated state for a while, before I remove it.
There is more of a rush to remove spam when it makes it to the live pages because of the web crawlers picking it up and that's what the spammers want. Not removing spam from live pages causes links to your pages to show up for all kinds of search results you probably wouldn't want them to.
There's a whole list of other things that has and will make the update worthy of my time spent doing it, I'm sure you'll say the same if you currently run an older version of MT and decide to upgrade.
I've also paid for the personal license from Six Apart, to show my support which will also enable me to get support if required.
It's time for me to get some sleep.
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