Since the upgrade to MT 3.31, I noticed that I lost the formatting of the entries in the ATOM feed for the site. I also stopped using ecto to post entries at the same time, which seems to be the problem.
When I first did the upgrade, I was getting some errors pushing posts from ecto to the site so I started using the MT New Entry form to get the past several posts done. I'm not sure what the MT forms are doing that makes the feeds lose their formatting.
The problem is resolving the tagging issue now. Ecto (as of 2.4.1) doesn't support Movable Type 3.31's new tagging system so if I want to use the MT tags, I have to go back into the MT forms interface. I would like to see the MT tags translate back to Technorati tags somehow. And I'm not sure what sense it makes to have both Categories and Tags on the blog to group similar posts together. To me it seems that the only difference between the two at the moment is that it's easier to add tags than categories to a post in the default Movable Type form.
If I was smarter about coding, I'd add something to MT to take the MT tags, and convert them to Technorati tags when displaying them on the entry. Then I wouldn't have to worry if things are getting tagged correctly externally. I might get some ideas while I'm having dog-related insomnia this week.
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