Ok, before I get to the point et me just say...NO I do not contribute to DNN in any meaningful way. I'm a user. So therefore some think I shouldn't complain. But please hear me out. Think of this more like a good friend keeping his drunk buddy from making a fool of himself. I love DNN and am a big fan, but some things are troubling me. To be fair I'm sure there is an explanation and I don't have the whole picture, but let me tell you what I see.
Why on earth has no one fixed the glaring CSS FireFox issue in the forums. (I don't mean to pick Crispy). I can understand taking time to roll out a fix for the module, but please someone hack something together. It's like DNN is walking around with it's fly down. Embarrasing. Who wants to say "Dude DNN rocks, check it out" when you know this is what they will see.
Plus what's up with the Projects or is it the Forge now? The project pages were a great idea. Unfortunatley many of the pages were not kept up very well. Many have a small one or two paragraph description and are updated rarely. The project blogs in many cases are so out of date that one might think the project is dead. If you say all the activity is in the forums then take down the blogs. They are embarrassing. The forge is a great idea too, but as it is implemented it seems like a DNN step child. Make a decision. Is it the forge or the project and then make it look and act like the first class open source framework that is DNN.
I'll stop there. There is more however.
Maybe DNN is getting too big to operate effeciently. Maybe it's going the way of MS and taking great potential and wasting it by not being able to keep it's act together. If you can't do it right maybe you shouldn't do it at all.
I know....If I'm not part of the solution, then I'm part of the problem.
But at the same time a good friend will tell you when you ripped your pants or have toiletpaper stuck to you shoe.