Jayson Knight has been cutting his teeth on the latest version of .TEXT now called Community Server trying to get it’s RSS and CommentAPI support to work.

Thankfully he posts his fix here for others to use.

I’m pretty sure he’d agree with me that given the chance, he wouldn’t have upgraded to Community Server so soon after its release. To be fair, it’s an ambitious release intending to integrate Forums, Blogs, and Photo Galleries all in one package. But for me personally, and I’d guess for a lot of .TEXT users, this wasn’t a necessary feature. Especially not at the cost of having existing features break.

It seems to me that the Telligent guys have released this puppy a bit too early. It’s really bothersome how much the RSS and commenting features regressed in this release. It’s not a case of simply introducing a bug that accidentally disables a feature, but instead appears to be a case of dropping the code for existing functionality. Who, besides the ever patient beta community, tested this?

Installation is still a tricky beast with this software as I’ve had difficulty getting it up on my development machine. Understand that I was able to get .TEXT installed and CS is supposed to have simplified the installation process. As many of you know, installing .TEXT is a trip to the dentist without N2O.

The reason I had chosen .TEXT in the first place was for its SQL Server support, and its the primary reason I’ll stick with it as running ad-hoc reports against my blog is quite convenient. I’ve considered DasBlog, but probably won’t switch until someone (or myself) writes a SQL provider.

One thing I like about DasBlog is that it’s focused on being a good blog engine. I think its that focus that will keep it very tight and without the annoyances of CS. So far, CS is a big disappointment.