I agree with points 1 and 3; however, the 8 second lag is an IIS thing (the worker thread goes to sleep) not a DNN thing. You can get modules for DNN that constantly ping your site on a pre-determined schedule to keep it awake and responsive.

My biggest gripe with DNN is that all DNN sites look the same. You can spot them a mile away.

>>There things that annoy me, to the point of not using it anymore.
>>1) The difficult, flakey, poorly documented upgrade path between versions
>>2) The websites go to sleep and take 8+ seconds to wake up
>>3) The lack of an elegant built-in skin