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 Tuesday, July 20, 2004

I've been using .Text  at work for about 2 days, and my first impressions are not great.  A few things that I'd like to see improved.

  • Attaching files to a post is difficult, or impossible.  I haven't figured out how to do this yet.
  • Adding pictures to a post is also very cumbersome.  You have to add the picture to a gallery, view the gallery, copy the image, open your post, and then paste the image in the post.  I must be doing something wrong, but all the .Text forum instructs you to do it this way. Ugh.
  • Using BlogJet with .Text is buggy, sometimes it just doesn't work.  But I found a patch that we're going to apply to see if things improve.

Other than those two major issues, I like .Text.  I like the look and feel a bit better than dasBlog, I love the skins.  A few people I've talked to believe that .Text performs better than dasBlog, but I don't have as much content on my blog, so I can really compare.  I asked these people about their decision to use .Text instead of dasBlog, here's some of what they said:

  • The latest version of dasBlog is PAINFULLY slow
  • .Text supports a community of bloggers much better
  • Other than search .Text is pretty much the same, but faster! And .Text will have search on the next release.
7/20/2004 3:55:15 PM (US Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [1]  |  Trackback