April Showers bring...

It's snowing. You read that right, this isn't an old post, it's April 23rd and it's been wet, windy and snowy all day. No accumulation, yet...

Yes, I said yet, they are predicting 4 to 7 inches of accumulation tonight! There is actually a storm warning from 10AM today until 6PM tomorrow. I don't think I've ever seen a warning that long (32 hours) before.

Should I move to MovableType 3?

Warning! Extra-Geeky post:
I'm using MovableType 2.661 I'm missing having sub-categories and I was hoping some of the dynamic features might help speed up my rebuilds. I've also been getting really slow responses when posting comments. I do a lot of odd dynamic stuff already (the body of my messages only get built once (processed once) and they just get included everywhere else (although this isn't really helping me on rebuilds since it's probably rebuilding the pages anyways, it may actually be smarter than that). I use Mt-Blacklist and some other plug-ins. Some of my category archive rebuilds are really getting slow (I'm sure my date archives are slow two, but the categories just keep growing).

I thought with TypeKey and comment moderation at a minimum I could turn off MT-blacklist on comments and just use it for trackbacks (assuming that's one of the things slowing it down) and Lisa recommended MT-Keystrokes for this too (but I think that's just for MT 3.x). I'm also still reading some confusing stuff on if MT-Blacklist is fully-functional for MT 3.x (does it have all the same features, I don't care if some of the new features aren't perfected yet).

What'd I'd like to see is some rebuild stuff that is were a little smarter when I did reposts. Something like “your message is posted, please verify it and if it is a-okay then press OK to rebuild your indexes, archives and categories”. I'm pretty sure it doesn't do this.

So I'm really looking for your two cents on if I should upgrade or what else I should consider. Anyone have any feedback on this or any of the above?