Lazycoder

MS blogging software and the blogging community

scooblog by josh ledgard : Grrrr, Can’t Participate in Tags from MSDN Blogs

For my two cents, which no one asked for, MSDN hitched their wagon to .Text and CS so now they are stuck with it.

Second, understand that criticism of the software is not criticism of the person. Unless you say something like “The brain dead idiot that designed this piece of crud.”. Then you may have crossed a line.

IMO CS and Telligent is suffering from “not invented here” syndrome and tunnel vision. Rather than looking at competing software to see what features they have and what features are useful, they are just sitting in a room and trying to think up new things. I cringe whenever I read a .Text/CS user complaining about their spam filtering abilities because WordPress and MT have such wonderful plug ins and a genuine community built up around fighting spam and yet the CS/.Text/Blogger bunch aren’t a part of that…yet. I have a plugin system that makes decisions about whether or not to allow a comment or put it into moderation based on the context of how the comment was submitted, the .Text guys are manually updating regexs. Wasted time.

Maybe with the new .Text fork that Phil H. has started, .Text can re-join the blog community? A true plug in framework would be a good start.

Blogger may never join us.