Karl Seguin

.NET From Ottawa, Ontario - http://twitter.com/karlseguin/

weblogs.asp.net

At the risk of embarrassing myself, what's up with weblogs.asp.net? Ever since the delayed upgrade to CommunityServer, a number of bloggers have been turning off anonymous comments (a mistake as far as I'm concerned, meh, their blog their business). What I can't figure out is how to log-in or register to leave a comment!

Take this new post from Jeff (which I'm just taking 'cuz it was the first on the list that requires a login). If you aren't logged in, all you'll see @ the bottom is:

"Comments

No Comments
Anonymous comments are disabled"

But there's no link to login or register - anywhere on the page. The weblogs.asp.net homepage itself doesn't have a link to register or login - which strikes me as odd given how ginormous the header is.

I'm missing something, right?

On a slightly related topic. David Burke thinks Community Server is open source. But Phillip Haack is right in saying that it isn't. It seems to come down to a matter of definition, with David using his own, and Phillip using the OSIs. In fairness to Telligent, I couldn't find anywhere on their site that claims that CommunityServer is "Open Source".

P.S. - I'm blogging this from writely.com , we'll see how it works. HAHAH.. Sorry Jeffrey, it showed up under your blog..trying again.

Published Jul 26 2006, 10:43 AM by karl

Comments

Alex Lowe said:

Right now, you can't leave comments on blogs that require authentication. (i.e. they've turned off anonymous comments). The bloggers know this (or should because we've told them).

The membership system for weblogs.asp.net is not in sync with the membership that drives the rest of asp.net (for a number of reasons). We're working to correct that. For now, we felt the lesser of two evils was the scenario you have described as opposed to the one where people have multiple accounts on the various *.asp.net sites without a good way to communicate/describe that to the user base.

# July 26, 2006 1:17 PM

karl said:

Alex:
Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps chaning the "Anonymous comments are disabled" function so that non weblogs.asp.net bloggers know about it too. Feel like an idiot spending time trying to find the "register" or "login" button.

# July 26, 2006 1:20 PM

Dave Burke said:

Karl, How about "Source Available?" :-) You're right, you won't find anything at cs.org about Community Server being an Open Source application. Definitions and interpretations as you said. I was trying to describe the benefits of personal ownership and freedom that come with using an application with available source code, not write a treatise on the definition of Open Source. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.

# July 26, 2006 1:27 PM