.Text is such a good fundament for the people who is interested in hosting their own blog on .Net and SQL server based platform. At least, I am one of them, and also really enjoy digging into the author's source as well. Someone mentioned some other good blog fundament that contains the good features that .Text doesn't have naturally, such as search, comment block, etc. But so far, they haven't been shown on my list yet, 1) I am a .Net fan, so want my own blog hosted on the platform I love; 2) I am a SQL server fan, so want to have my own content saved in a database based environment, especially on SQL.
Yes, .Text does lack some good features. However, there are numbers of people have done a lot of wonderful job to get the .Text better and better. Search on .Text based blog is the most lacked part on .Text world. The one on Ryan Farley's blog is the most easiest and impressive one I have ever found. It uses Google or MSN's RSS search feature and Scott Mitchell's RssFeed ASP.Net Server Control to show the content indexed on the search engine (another word, anything that hasn't been indexed yet can't be found), not perfect but very good. Also I have noticed that the pre .Text 0.96 version has the full-text search feature build-in but I haven't happened to implement it successfully. I am hopping there are someone out there could do something on it as anyone of you could find it is hard to find your own stuff while it gets bigger. Right now, I developed a piece of code to give me the ability to search my stuff, not full-text searchable but at least gives me something.
Here are some of them...(it can't be a complete list, instead, it is just something I came cross and found from the Internet)
Skin:
.Text Skin 101
RoudyBob.net .Text Skin Catalog
.Text Skin Directory
Calendar
Giving .Text a Calendar view from Scott on Writing
Calendar Control from Scott Watermasysk
An improved calendar for .text from Scott Willeke
Comment Spam Block
Preventing .Text blog spam using triggers
CAPTCHA Image Control for .Text
The end of Comment Spam?
Search
My new blog search from Ryan Farley