I have decided to move to Community Server. It's time. I 've worked a lot with dotText and think its a fantastic app, but there is no question that for me, moving to CS is the right decision. Why? Because a smarter guy than me who built dotText thought that CS::Blogs was a better idea. That's all I need to know.
I want to study the CS source to see what Scott Watermasysk decided he needed to improve on, what he wanted to do differently this time around, what new techniques he wanted to use since releasing 0.95 two years ago. I want to see where he's at now.
As for working with dotText in the future, as I said in my Code Camp talk, dotText is a wonderful reference for many .NET best practices and a scalable, rock-solid blogging application. Personally I have no plans to continue working in it (for new application development anyway), and I have no interest in participating in any dotText 0.97 effort. The guys who want to take dotText forward have great ideas and I look forward to reading about their work, but I'll be a Community Server Guy when that happens. I assume ScottW is cool with dotText going forward independent of his input, but I don't know Scott personally and certainly can't address the subject. I do think that out of respect and courtesy to dotText's creator, it would be good to get Scott's OK.
One reason I am now able to make the Community Server decision is because my Code Camp talk on dotText is behind me. Before the dotText talk I loaded up CS and looked it over, but I was focusing on dotText both emotionally and intellectually. Then on the drive back to Vermont I had a moment when I felt a huge weight was lifted and that I no longer had to wrestle with the decision of staying with dotText or commiting to CS. I knew at that moment that it was time to move to CS. End of discussion. It was on I-93 and I was still in Massachusetts.
So look for a lot of technical posts on Community Server in the weeks and months to come. The trip is going to be interesting.