What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

I see (or guess) that ASP.NET Weblogs (where this blog is hosted) upgraded to a newer version of Community Server but boy it doesn't look good. Besides the change in the control panel and things, the look is pretty different on my blog, the sidebar has a few broken things now that I had to remove, but most importantly http://weblogs.asp.net isn't showing any content. Hopefully they'll have this fixed soon. Normally they announce major upgrades and such, but I guess you get what you pay for (free) so I can't complain too much.

Update: Seems a lot of people are complaining about the upgrade. Things are a little messed up here as the CSS has changed. I use the stock Marvin3 from the old .Text blog but it changed (or something around it) so there's additional white space and padding everywhere on the site. Other blogs that are using custom skins/css are really messed up. I noticed Frans' tags are just plain ugly and unreadable.

In addition JavaScript is disabled for the sidebar so I had to remove a few links I had and uploading images is disabled (or some kind of security problem is afoot). A couple of other problems were that the tag filtering doesn't seem to be working. On Weblogs, if we tag entries with certain tags they show up on the main page. Now it seems everything is getting up there.

I caught a comment by Rob Howard on another blog saying that emails had been sent out regarding the upgrade, but only 115 went out then suddenly stopped, as if thousands of processes suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. What a mess.

Published Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:20 AM by Bil Simser

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# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:34 AM by chris hammond

I'm seeing content on weblogs.asp.net, it's just not pretty

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# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:54 PM by David Cumps
They disabled the use of your own javascripts in the sidebar :(

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:10 PM by JoshStodola

The entire ASP.NET site looks like crap now.  I guess now the crappy can at least correspond with the crappy performance.

Just can't believe this is an official Microsoft web site... almost worth laughing about.  I bet PHP-ers worldwide are making fun of us.....

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:43 PM by help.net

Hi I contected Telligent because yes it's quite unacceptable that somebody without consultation decide to upgrade with no warning.

I also asked that they enable again Javascript on the blogs.

Paschal

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:26 PM by FransBouma

I override the body tag's background image via CSS overrides. It now doesn't work anymore. I then decided to upload the image in the control panel.. whohoo... access denied. You can't upload an image.

How wonderful. Javascripts work again it seems so my google shared links appear again.

Very inTelligent... NOT.

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:41 PM by FransBouma

Btw, don't click on

http://www.asp.net/community/

;).

It looks like someone won't be home for dinner tonight... ;)

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:01 PM by Bil Simser

What a mess. Apparently there are failures like this on most blogs. Javascript disabled, CSS wrong, security not quite right. Sigh. However I'm sure Rob and Co. are looking into things (as I've seen him comment on a few peoples blogs).

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:33 PM by Josh Stodola
Too bad Rob and Co dont know a damn thing about significant testing prior to deployment.

# weblogs.asp.net, www.asp.net, and forums.asp.net update

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:37 PM by Rob Howard's Blog

Well, we made some rather large site updates today. Some went well, some not so well. We've had a lot

# weblogs.asp.net, www.asp.net, and forums.asp.net update

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:00 PM by Community Blogs

Well, we made some rather large site updates today. Some went well, some not so well. We've had a

# weblogs.asp.net, www.asp.net, and forums.asp.net update

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:06 PM by Community Blogs

Well, we made some rather large site updates today. Some went well, some not so well. We've had a lot

# weblogs.asp.net, www.asp.net, and forums.asp.net update

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:16 PM by Rob Howard's Blog

Well, we made some rather large site updates today. Some went well, some not so well. We've had a lot

# re: What the heck happened to ASP.NET Weblogs?

Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:26 AM by Rob Conery
That was an Obi Wan quote! Good one!

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