.Text 0.96 Silliness
I'm sort of oblivious to these things because my job's not as fun as Scott's, inasmuch as I don't get to work on fun things like CS during the day. Someone forwarded me a post about things people have written about 0.96 and .Text's future in general. It's sort of silly really.
Telligent's Community Server 1.0 is the next version of .Text and it's going to go a lot further a lot faster than .Text. People should be lining up to help Scott, Rob, Jason, Terry and all those folks push CS where it could go as a collaboration platform rather than trying to revive .Text as a standalone product.
The presumptive conclusion that CS is bloated and .Text isn't is pretty silly imo. Download the CS betas and play with them. If you don't realize pretty quickly that CS is going to end up being vastly superior to .Text, you should go on over to TypePad and get a nice hosted account that will keep you from injuring yourself.
More than anything, the tone of people who were posting about this was disappointing to me. Scott did a ton of work on .Text and, if I'm writing the retrospective, he basically helped kickstart a Microsoft-focused blog scene with weblogs.asp.net. My thinking is that people should just say thanks and little else, not bitch about why CS took so long or ruminate on how Rob is on some quest to ruin the world by refactoring ASP.NET Forums, nGallery and .Text into one coherent community platform.
Anyway, I'll see if I still have my 0.97 source around, I think I trashed it. People really shouldn't go that direction but they can if they choose, even if it's counter-productive. At the same time I'm not sure how it can be that complicated getting 0.96 up and running, I posted multiple sets of instructions in the www.asp.net forum about doing just that.
And to whomever things it should be renamed dotText, I understand the logic, but that's silly. It is what it is and no one seems to be having a problem using .NET at the beginning or end of the sentence, lol.
People just feel too entitled to things these days... you kids stay out of my yard!