borked.

Astute readers will notice that the last few entries have some, uh, problems: no individual entries, missing pages, appearing on one index and not another, that sort of thing.

The short answer is that the weblog is borked.

The long answer is that Movable Type, the blogging engine that powers this site, has bogged down under 8 years of entries, and is failing to properly publish all of the templates.

Actually, it’s failing to publish any of the templates completely correctly, and I’m updating by hand.

And no, I didn’t change anything. There are, however:

• 2178 published entries,
• 6 different indexes,
• another 8 archive templates,
• all with nested modules.

Recent entries took 10 minutes or more to publish; the last complete site rebuild took over a half-hour.

I am running custom templates in the MT 3.x codebase on the BerkeleyDB backend, with no clear upgrade path to MT 4.x on MySQL. There are database issues. There are template issues. There are time and is-this-really-worth-it? issues.

So.

It appears that the future of brett’s logjam is suddenly, unexpectedly … murky. Uncertain. Up in the air.

Suggestions on how to proceed are, as always, welcome.