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.