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aegis

Separated blogs for each user too would be nice. Why have either/or when you can have both. ;-)

houseinprogress

I'd second the benefit of supporting one blog per user (at least as an option). We're doing that on my own Vanilla-based site...Houseblogs.net. Right now the blogs are externally hosted and aggregated on my site but the same approach could apply here.

For example, here's a 'most recent' view of everyone's latest blog entries:

http://www.houseblogs.net/community/extension.php?PostBackAction=Blogs

Here's how blog entries are incorporated into a person's Account page:

http://www.houseblogs.net/community/account.php?u=79

And here's a listing of all the blog entries by a single user:

http://www.houseblogs.net/community/extension.php?PostBackAction=Blogs&u=79

I think having these options would be beneficial to some sites. That said, I agree it should be an option and limiting the number of users who could blog would also be beneficial for many sites.

houseinprogress

Actually, thinking about it more these features could probably be added as extensions on top of your Blogs extension:

- One extension to add the latest X blog posts to a user's account page

- One extension to add links in the side panel to sort/filter blog posts (like Discussion Filters 2)

- An extension to allow filtering blog posts by category (like Mark's Category Jumper)

Leaving these kind of things out of the core extension would keep things simple for those who don't want the extras....I withdraw my suggestions above. :-)