I’m pleased to announce the forking of .Text!  Phil (aka Haacked) will be driving the effort to continue development on .Text, and he’s rebadging it as subText (cute name eh?).  Have a look at his announcement for more information, he’s also sketched out a rough roadmap as to where he wants to take this thing.  I was also fortunate enough to get a personal invite from him to join the team for this over at SourceForge (we’ve been discussing the fork for about a week, though it was 100% his idea), no doubt due to the work I’ve done on Community Server, plus I’m just cool like that.  I know he’s looking for more folks with .Text knowledge, so if you’re interested, ping him via his blog.

A lot of .Text users feel alienated by Telligent, fearing that they left .Text for dead.  CS isn’t for everyone, especially those in the single blog/hobbyist realm.  I’ve managed to make it work for me, though it’s taken quite a bit of patience and massaging.  Those in the hobbyist realm are also a bit put off by how tightly integrated everything in CS is (most of us don’t need forums…though there is indeed an option to turn them off completely); I know for a fact that in a future release, the disparate functionality of Blogs/Gallery/Forums will be much more modularized and more loosely coupled.  What’s great about subText is that you guys, the actual users, will have a choice…and that’s what it’s all about right?  I’m excited about this!

Feel free to leave feature requests/thoughts/rants/raves either here, on Haacked’s page, or on the sourceforge page.  One item on our todo list is get a proper domain/wiki set up in the very near future so that everything can be consolidated in one place.  I will also be creating a new post category called subText to try and keep my CS stuff seperate.