Now that I made the plunge and switched to Community Server (admittedly only because my host had issues running the latest subText), I wanted to voice my opinion, since that is what I do ;) Take it all with a grain of salt since I have only had CS installed for less than 24 hours.

The first thing I noticed is that managing Community Server is more complex than I thought it would be. I understand that with flexibility and power comes complexity, but it seems that the complexity increased more than the feature set.

Looking around in the forums, I think there is a general agreement on this. One thing that would *really* improve that for people like me (and once again, many of the personal users would agree) is if there was a "Community Server Lite" edition targetted for single blog users such as myself. The benefits to this would be the blog would be the default page, which is a common request. You could get rid of the forums and remove all the magical multiblog options (setting them all to on so the individual blog settings could be used to enable or disable for the blog itself). I know there really isn't any motivation to do this, since the single blog users would be generally using the free version anyhow, and none of the features would be portable to the paid versions. Still, I can wish can't I?

On a more positive note, Community Server is much more professional feeling that the other solutions I have played with. This includes the quality of the themes available, as well as the quality of the adminitration section. The administration section often looks like it is the poor step child in some solutions because noone but the admin sees it anyhow. It is nice to have something so polished when I am trying to get my blog settings tweaked, though the administration section is sometimes confusing and hard to navigate.

 All in all, I am quite happy with the conversion and am glad I finally made the switch!