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I was using Pinax, but I just moved my apps over to a vanilla 1.3 install.

Pinax has some cool stuff, but I gotta be honest, I found it a little tough on a newbie. Maybe I just choose poorly on my starter project, but it took me a while to understand how Pinax uses templates and how the media handling works. And it turns out that I'm actually rather particular about my templates and how I want my tagging to work. It also wasn't always clear how Pinax deviates from a regular install, so it made just that much harder to ask for help or reference other tutorials.

When Pinax comes out for 1.3 I'll definitely take another look. I certainly don't intend to build my own account creation & verification & user profile app, when it's got what looks like a very nice one.