Exceptional bloggers like Stefano "Plugged-in" Demiliani, Steve "The Brain" Eichert, Jason "Hootenanny" Haley, and most of the Essential Stud Core at CodeBetter.com began blogging at DNJ. That fact gives DNJ sufficient reason for having existed. But it's time. Put DNJ weblogs and its readers out of our collective misery and pull the plug. If there are other Demilianis, Eicherts, and Haleys still authoring on DNJ, we'll have to miss you until you move to a real site. After two years, I am no longer subscribing to DNJ.
I remember back in March when I did my Customizing dotText presentation at Code Camp III and wanted to provide examples of robust and high-volume communities using dotText. After showing a few selected sites I feared someone would say, "BUT WHAT ABOUT DOTNETJUNKIES??? THEY RUN DOTTEXT! THEY'RE VOLUME IS WAY LOW COMPARED TO THOSE OTHERS YOU SHOWED. AND THEY SUCK!" My only response would have to be, "Don't know, kid. Let's move on to explore the dotText framework, shall we?"
I maintained my DNJ feed for the last months for the sole purpose of reading the final posts of classy guys who continue to exhibit graciousnesss to their hosts in spite of runtime errors, performance issues, no spam controls, no comments, blah, blah, pathetic, pathetic. I couldn't have been that gracious. But now with the DNJ upgrade to CommunityServer, I'm getting double posts in my NewGator feed--the same CS 1.0 bug that plagues bit-players like me. Brandon Tompkins fixed the CodeBetter dupe feeds by upgrading to CS 1.1 as soon as it became available (something I should find the time to do), but Brandon knows what he's doing and cares about his bloggers, two traits obviously lacking at DNJ.