MT4: Finally made it

Finally. I've done it. I've made the switch. With the slight exception of MT Blogroll, which I can do without for now (but which I'm already starting to miss), all the plug-ins I needed have been updated and I finally made the transition last weekend. I've even switched two of the blogs to use the new MT4-style templates and Vox themes. I'd have switched the main one if there were a theme from the MT4 style library that suited it - there's a couple on Vox I'm quite partial to, but as of yet, despite the promised interchangeability between Vox, LiveJournal and MT, I've yet to see anywhere explain how to download a Vox theme and use it on MT.

To say MT4's buggy is an understatement. I've reported at least 14 bugs so far and I'm experiencing intermittent bugs of no great concern all the time. They're bugs I can live with or work round, but they're still irritating. Here's a few:

• New tags not working properly (eg MTCommentFooter within MTCommentReplies or the URL tag for the commenter authentication type not working for TypeKey authenticaion)
• Templates that are set to rebuild with main indexes not rebuilding
• MTIfStatic and MTIfDynamic not recognising MTElse and getting confused within MTIncludes
• Tag glue not displaying properly, so that quotes appear around the glue
• Certain settings for blogs getting propagated to other blogs
• MT4's default templates not containing all the necessary variables to activate the correct text in the About widget

And so on. As I said, mostly things I can live with for now. All in all, though, I'm glad I made the move to MT4 since there are some nifty things in it I'm starting to enjoy having.