Things such as community websites almost always "fail". Esp from the perspective of early adopters. At time passes and things grow they change, their "goals" change, their "community" changes. These changes are often seen as failures of the original "vision" believed to have existed by each "generation" of users.

But, yelling fail from asp.net is hilarious as ASP is almost guaranteed to fail when MS needs some revenue or market leverage and gets everyone to dump ASP/.net dev stack for MS's latest "greatest" acronym.