--- title: "Upgrading weblogs.asp.net from a slow and painful death" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/4/2/upgrading-weblogsaspnet-from-a-slow-and-painful-death.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/4/2/upgrading-weblogsaspnet-from-a-slow-and-painful-death.html" published: "2006-04-02T14:07:00" updated: "2006-04-02T14:07:00" tags: ["Community"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Omer writes eloquently about the slow death of weblogs.asp.net: \"Time passed and as it did, more and more weblogs went the way of weblogs and were never again posted to, while other writers kept theirs alive by the…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Upgrading weblogs.asp.net from a slow and painful death By Roy Osherove April 2, 2006 In [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community) **Historical article** · Originally published April 2, 2006; technical details may be outdated. [Omer writes eloquently](http://weblogs.asp.net/OKloeten/archive/2006/04/02/441666.aspx) about the slow death of weblogs.asp.net: _"Time passed and as it did, more and more weblogs went the way of weblogs and were never again posted to, while other writers kept theirs alive by the sheer power of their collective will. The sense of community - of equality between fellow developers across corporate boundaries - had been lost to the capitalistic PR ambitions of the behemoth that is Microsoft. The application running the server was left to die the death of unupgraded software and the good name of weblogs.asp.net dwindled and shrunk to what it is today."_ Yes. [Promises have been made](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2006/03/23/440876.aspx), But an unnamed source at Microsoft tells me that upgrading blogs.msdn.com took so long that nobody at Telligent or at Microsoft really has an interest or energy to invest in upgrading weblogs.asp.net. I'm not sure how true that really is. I hear conflicting rumors all the time. It would be a shame if that was the case. It would be insulting, actually. Is there anyone from Microsoft who'd like to respond to this with a big "NO" or a "yeah, you're right"? Probably not. But then again, people have proved me wrong on several occasions on this blog. Perhaps this is just another chance to do the exact same thing. ## More in Community [All posts in Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community) - May 15, 2006 ### [The Good and Bad in Tech-Ed Israel 2006](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/5/15/the-good-and-bad-in-tech-ed-israel-2006.html) - Apr 6, 2006 ### [Port 25: Microsoft Open Source Software Lab's "Channel 9"?](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/4/6/port-25-microsoft-open-source-software-labs-quotchannel-9quo.html) - Mar 29, 2006 ### [The Tech-Ed Israel Blog needs some \*buzz\*](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/29/the-tech-ed-israel-blog-needs-some-buzz.html) - Mar 29, 2006 ### [New Israeli MVPs Announced](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/29/new-israeli-mvps-announced.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/