I'm currently rolling out digArticle on my tech portal IT Specialist (www.itspecialist.com), and I'm very pleased with it so far. I was using Ventrian, but I liked the social networking style interface of digArticle over Ventrian, so that's the main reason I switched. It has a bit more flexibility in the modules as well. For instance, with Ventrian I couldn't place two instances of the module for two top level categories on the same page without displaying the article on a page all by itself. (i.e. without other modules). With digArticle I can display other modules on a page with its "View" module. As for performance, digArticle seems to render twice as fast as Ventrian, which is nice. I tested this twice by clearing out the browser cache in both instances. The slower response by Ventrian could simply be caused by the littany of settings compared to digArticle, but I'm not certain. If you're big on asthetics like I am, you might want to consider digArticle. Otherwise Ventrian may be fine for your needs.

William,
Thanks for noticing the performance!  We go though great pains to make it fast.  We use both a .net profiler and SQL profiler to make sure everything is optimized, we cache hot data and cache our templates also, we require SQL 2005+ just so we can do fast built-in SQL paging for the article lists.
Thanks,
Mike

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Hi Armand, digArticle is 100% template driven, even some of the admin screens are template driven like the moderation lists which the moderator/admin approves/disapproves articles and comments. The only thing that is NOT template driven is of course most of the admin screens and the Article Edit screen. Thanks, Mike

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