Rob Eberhardt

This sucks, but the gambling comment spam has hit a critical limit, and I've wasted a stupid amount of time trying to solve it (without luck). 

So I've closed comments.  And now reopened, with my own clever nofollow solution.

To enumerate my frustrations:

• .Text 0.95 code is complicated (*).  Adding rel=“nofollow” to comment links is apparently not possible.  It's apparently possible with 0.96, though, but...
• Getting the .Text 0.96 install package is difficult.  There's no simple zip/exe download from its mysteriously-deserted website (like the older versions on gotdotnet Workspaces) --  Instead, you have to get, install, configure and use SourceGear Vault just to download it.  (For those who want to skip this hassle, I've zipped the .Text 0.96 source code here.)
• Installing .Text 0.96 is difficult.  Of course, installing 0.95 was a big pain too (plus dotTextHelper had bad docs), but this is worse.  I followed the explicit instructions (still not included with the installer), and I get errors (“Could not load type 'Dottext.Global'.”) .  It seems the various DotText DLLs are not actually present in the bin folder.  I doublechecked the Vaultpub source, and it's the same there.  Anyone Where's the
• Community Server won't do single-user mode.  As a result, it would change all my existing URLs.  There are hacks (1, 2) , but they create myriad other problems.  (Why isn't single-user mode built-in as a checkbox on the installer?!)
• Community Server's code is too complicated (*), so attempting to troubleshoot those hacks was a waste of hours.
• I will grant, though: CS is much easier to install (ah an actual installer!), and I found a great .Text to CS converter, which imported my content perfectly.

* The code for both .Text and Community Server's code is way too complicated.  Why is an open-source app -- which is supposed to encourage hacking from other devs -- full of such highly-abstracted code??  A main reason I settled on CS/.Text was because I know ASP.net fairly well (and ASP extremely well).  Unfortunately, the extreme complexity/abstraction and lack of decent docs pretty much cancels that out.  I've seen PHP apps which were easier to figure out (and I barely know PHP).

....If I'm going to waste this much time on fixing one little thing (comment spam), it's so tempting to just write my own.  I specifically tried to avoid that, though, because I have so many other technical time-drains.

Argh!