Subtext User Survey

Subtext Logo I put up a short three question survey on the Subtext website.  If you are a subtext user or thinking about using Subtext, please take a moment and fill it out. It’ll only take a second.

For the first question, if you choose Other, please be kind and comment on this post what that other hosting provider is. Thanks!

The third question bears a bit of explanation.  If you use the web admin to enter a blog post, the Advanced Options allow you to enter a short excerpt for the blog post.  My hunch is that nobody uses it.

This excerpt is displayed when listing posts within a category.  I think we might be better served by having some means to automatically generate an excerpt OR to allow users to mark up their blog posts when using a 3rd party tool so that we can extract an excerpt.

After I get in some results to this survey, I’ll talk about that some more.  Over time I may add some more questions.  So please, if you have a moment, take the survey.

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Simone Chiaretta Nov 09, 2006 2:43 PM
# re: Subtext User Survey
I use the excerpt because I "live" in a blog site that has an aggregator page, and that is the main page that everybody read.
So, when the post contains a lot of images, or is long, or is OT compared to the main topic of the site, I use the excerpt, and syndacate on the aggregator only the excerpt.

Probably in a single blog site will not be crucial, except when you want to syndacate on the RSS feed only a teaser and not the full blog entry.

But I guess that an automatic excerpt generator, that truncates the the blog post at the first period, or something similar will be fine, too...
Requesting Gravatar... Jason Nov 09, 2006 3:17 PM
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For your reference as you requested, my "other" web hosting provider is GoDaddy.com.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Nov 09, 2006 3:27 PM
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Doh! I thought I had GoDaddy as an option, but I didn't. I went ahead and added it. Thanks for letting me know.
Requesting Gravatar... Jiltedcitizen Nov 09, 2006 4:00 PM
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I use JodoHost.com
Requesting Gravatar... Danuz Nov 09, 2006 4:02 PM
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As you requested, my other web hosting provider is my school. It provides us free web hosting when we were students and give us the chance to keep it after graduation.
Requesting Gravatar... vern Nov 09, 2006 7:39 PM
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Hi there. I'm an idiot. Please excuse my iciocy.

I checked yes for excerpt, when I intended no.

As I said; I'm an idiot.
Requesting Gravatar... Kent Sharkey Nov 09, 2006 8:11 PM
# re: Subtext User Survey
Host: EAServe aka ServerIntellect
Requesting Gravatar... Simone Nov 10, 2006 1:18 AM
# re: Subtext User Survey
In Italy one of the most used hosting provider is Aruba. (www.aruba.it)
It has a problem: it only allow one fixed name user writable folder, so, SubText is not working on this hosting provider.
The same problem apply to DNN, and in fact some guys developed an "hacked" version of DNN that uses FTP to save user files on itself (since all the folder can be accessed via FTP)
Another option, easier in my opinion, is to make possible to change the name (as web.config settings) of the user folder in ST.
Requesting Gravatar... FoxyBlog Nov 10, 2006 1:27 AM
# Sondaggio su SubText
Requesting Gravatar... Michael Cook Nov 10, 2006 9:11 AM
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I use CrystalTech.com as my host.
Requesting Gravatar... Dragan Panjkov Dec 07, 2006 2:34 PM
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My blog is hosted on Quantasoft, qsh.eu. They provided ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express hosting, but I installed Subtext
Requesting Gravatar... disgruntled Dec 13, 2006 3:28 AM
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Quantasoft, qsh.eu are a con, they advertise free hosting but the admin panel for creating the subdomain doesn't work so no url!!! Error messages are in Slovak and they dont respond to support requests - dont bother with them

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