I was looking for the instructions to upgrade to Typo 4.0 (for my other blog). And my search for “upgrade typo” resulted in a link to Mephisto, which I have been wanting to try. So, I installed Mephisto on my local machine. Here are my first impressions:

• I liked that when you log out of Mephisto you are sent straight to your blog instead of some weird “Where would you like to go?” page. I am guessing that you could change this in Typo fairly easily.
• I didn’t like that tags have to be separated with commas
• I was left wondering, “What was so wrong about Typo that would make you write something like Mephisto? I mean from a UI design perspective Mephisto isn’t that much better than Typo 4.0.”
• But I am sure the Mephisto people are working on new features as I type this. So, I am considering upgrading my other blog to Mephisto and keeping this one on Typo. But which one should I try to write plugins/additions for?

1. Theme uploading and editing
2. You can subscribe to your own Overview feed, which includes upcoming as well as already published posts
3. Mephisto has sections rather than categories, which I think will help users think of ways of using Mephisto to manage sites that aren’t blogs
4. A Save As Draft Option
5. A Bucket to use as a temporary place to toss some assets while browsing in the asset manager

If you know of any cool Mephisto features that I haven’t listed here, please post them.