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To save myself from posting a comment in everyone's blog, here is a quick run down of what happened and is currently happening: Upgrade Issues Due to a freak chance of fate, a hardware issue arose on Monday, about 36 hours after I had posted a minor build...

The weblogs.asp.net/blogs.msdn.com bits were updated tonight. The following features were added: Comments per blog can now be moderated. This is configured on the Preferences page (Admin > Options > Preferences) Individual comments can be toggled...

I posted a very minor update tonight. You should now be able to go to Admin >> Options >> Preferences and globally turn your comments on or off . There is still NO confirmation the update was successful. There will be a major update in...

The first run of 0.96 should be posted tomorrow (Feb 9, 2004) night, so you will likely see some lights flickering. -Scott

I have started a category/column on my personal blog about some of .Text's feature . ( rss ). I probably will not touch much of the code, but I will try to cover all of the core features. -Scott

I posted a demo/beta search for .Text (and weblogs.asp.net) at: http://scottwater.com/tempsearch/ You can read about here .

Seems to be something off with the viewstate and comments. I will look into this soon. Sorry. Update: This error has been corrected.

Grouping of feeds will get dramatically better in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, you can now view a Microsoft only home page at: http://weblogs.asp.net/default.aspx?GroupID=2 and subscribe to a Microsoft only feed at: http://weblogs.asp.net/mainfeed...

As I mentioned earlier, there are a couple of new syndication features you can take advantage of here ( http://weblogs.asp.net ) While posting, if you view "Advanced Options" (you know, the panel you never open :) You should see the following ...

See what I forgot ...btw, this is a feature, see how you did not get the full post :)...

The site update is already to go. Since it is about 11:15 EST, I will not make the update until tomorrow night. -Scott

I have a couple more items to test, but if all goes well, there should be a code update tonight on weblogs.asp.net. The code should be posted publicly shortly as well. During the update there will likely be a couple minutes of downtime. Among the new...

The delete post bug has been fixed. The hardest part of about the fix was finding the DB via COMNET.

Minor update on Stats features....

Made a pretty minor update tonight: Services and MetaBlogAPI should be working again. Comments look to be OK (although I did not change anything. Still need to retest commentAPI, anyone experiencing problems with this?) Added two new skins...

There seems to be an issue with comments being rendered. I am still not 100% of the what/why/how, but in some quick tests, all of the comments seem to get saved correctly (which is good). However, sometimes the comments are not rendered on when viewing...

I made a very minor update tonight. Sorry for the downtime. I changed something in the skins and forgot to push the changes. If you find anything out of the ordinary, please drop me a note here or IM me. -Scott

Everyone blogging here and  “borrowing” bandwidth for the PDC image, should probably use a local copy found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/images/pdc2003.gif   -Scott

Oh yes, btw, I have changed the name of the engine to .Text (Dot Text). I think it has a nice ring to it...but if you have something better, I am still willing to rename it :)

Brand spanking new admin section. Many thanks to Grant Carpenter for the fresh perspective. The previous UI/interaction where much better than the original, so I  think my own perspective was skewed. Some fresh eyes (and available time) and I think we...

It does not look like the update will happen tonight. I will be making the update tomorrow night at 8 pm EST (Monday) -Scott

I will be bringing down the site in a couple of minutes for an upgrade. (probably close to an hour) -Scott

Do you find the referrals section of these blogs helpful? Just noise? Please comment here . -Scott