WordPress gets Slashdotted

There been a lot of hoopla lately about the licensing changes in Movable Type 3.0, and there have been a lot of MT users switching to WordPress. The news finally made it onto Slashdot today, so the WP server is getting hammered with a lot of extra traffic. Youch!

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WordPress gets Slashdotted

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2 Comments

  1. logtar blog.logtar.com
    Posted May 14, 2004 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    I have been using WP from the beggining of my blogging. I have been recomending it to people for a while, people seem to be running from MT.

  2. nikkiana everytomorrow.org
    Posted May 14, 2004 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    My boyfriend was browsing through Slashdot today and he says to me, “Oh, look. They’re talking about that MT thing.” so I went over to the computer and read it and started skipping around at the mention of WP and he’s just like, “I don’t get it.”

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  1. By Visual Grammar on June 2, 2004 at 12:29 pm

    I Concur!
    Doing my usual reading rounds, i had these thoughts:

    I feel totally the same as Alex. I was doing some testing the other day and i was thinking to myself that it was kinda bothersome and inefficient that i had to click activate/deactivate on one plu…

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