Frans has some concerns about what's happening here at weblogs.asp.net. Personally, I don't think the influx is a bad thing. You can continue to criticize all you want, and in fact as long as it's constructive the criticism will be more effective - you now have people responsible for the products actively involved in the community and the feedback loop is tighter.
The big problem that I've seen as the community grows, though, is that the main feed is is becoming more and more “congested”, and as a side effect of the growth the breadth of the topics has increased.
Now, this isn't a bad thing per se, but it does make things harder to maintain “special interest groups” about a particular technology, etc.
I know this has been discussed before, but perhaps it's worth revisiting the idea of customized aggregated feeds. Really, it should be quite simple to implement. (The idea is that these feeds would be based on metadata about both the blogger and the individual post).
Maybe this would involved global categories instead of user-defined categories. By putting a post in a particular category, I'm telling .Text to include it in the automatically aggregated feed for that category.
This would allow bloggers to post things across a broad spectrum of topics - including non-technology stuff - and not clog up the aggregated feeds. You could also do something similar based on characteristics of the bloggers themselves - ie what company they work for, by location, and so on.
In fact, it might be an interesting opportunity for .Text to evolve from “simple” weblog software to a system for building complex, online communities.