4/19/2007 4:59:11 AM

I've never used this, but Subtext (http://subtextproject.com/) has been recommended to me by Carl Camera (http://iamacamera.org), the creator of Vine Type (http://www.vinetype.com/). I hope this helps!

Shane Shepherd

4/19/2007 6:07:23 AM

From what I've see with Dot Net Nuke, it could handle the task. Hope that helps.

Ryan

4/19/2007 6:11:35 AM

First of all, I would never recommend Community Server, free or not. It's a piece of junk.

The best thing is to write it yourself. Of course nobody has the time, so I guess here are your options:

http://www.codeplex.com/CASK

http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine


Best of luck!

Josh Stodola

4/19/2007 6:46:16 AM

you may try this
http://subtextproject.com/

thanks
saran

saran

4/19/2007 6:47:46 AM

This may not be the answer you're after, but I have to suggest WordPress (MU is their multi-blog product).

When I initially set up my blog, I tried all of the .NET blog engines I could find. I would have very much preferred to run a .NET based product, since my blog is exclusively about .NET topics. However, none of them (even Community Server) compared to the power, flexibility, and ease of use that WordPress provided. So, I begrudgingly started using it and couldn't imagine going back now.

It's just a much more mature platform than anything we've got native to .NET, and the huge user base means there are thousands of great plugins and themes readily available.

Dave

4/19/2007 7:32:34 AM

As far as I know, SubText is free and supports multi blogs. Its a parallel version of the .Text.

"The GeeksWithBlogs.net website just switched over its 1442 (and counting) blogs, containing 25,921 blog posts and 39,140 comments over to Subtext. As Jeff Julian reports, it only took them six hours."

More info @ http://subtextproject.com/

Bruno 'Shine' Figueiredo

4/19/2007 7:44:34 AM

Try Umbraco. Open Source.

mycol

4/19/2007 8:18:04 AM

mojoPortal is one free option that supports multiple blogs.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Community Server's blog but does have basic blogging and could be extended with more features by any party that wants to get involved.

It has a number of other features including RSS Aggregator which can be used to aggregate the blogs if so desired.

http://www.mojoportal.com

Worth consideration anyway.

Best Regards,

Joe Audette

Joe Audette

4/19/2007 11:18:14 AM

what abt blogger???

Regards,
Dotnetguts
http://www.dotnetguts.blogspot.com/

DNG

4/19/2007 12:30:05 PM

There isn't buddy. There isn't.
From time to time, like each 6 months, I came back to the asp.net forums and ask about the best software available on CMS, Blog, Wiki and Forums, regardless free or not.
It has not changed in years:
CMS: DotNetNuke
Blog: It was .Text, now SubText seems taking the place. Some people even might recommend Community Server, but it is a bit too much for just blogging.
Forums: Community Server.
Wiki: FlexWiki

Sadly, the PHP counter part are so strong:
CMS: Joomla, it beats DotnetNuke hands down.
Blog: WordPress.
Forums: vBulletin, nothing better on the market.
Wiki: Wikimedia, nothing more to say.

Cesar

4/19/2007 12:31:38 PM

Forgot to say, I'm developing exactly that. But heck, you might need to wait 2 years until I'm done ;)

Cesar

4/19/2007 2:40:20 PM

Hey Joe,

Community Server is still free for non-commercial use and an unlimited Personal non-commercial license is $99. We only ask that commercial business buy licenses of the commercial editions -- we still have to keep the lights on you know

We also provide *free* commercial licenses for any site(s) used to further .NET technologies.

So the answer to your question is: Community Server is the best free multi-blogging engine for .NET.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Rob

Rob Howard

4/19/2007 4:19:29 PM

SubText is loaded with features and it is free:
http://www.subtextproject.com/

Comes with many skins and they're simple to change from the Login admin.
If you check it out take a look at the Piyo skin, it's amazing.
Salute,
Mark

Mark Wisecarver

4/19/2007 4:49:07 PM

Thanks Rob,

But, much as I like community server, it's NOT free.

I want to set up a blogging community site for sports entheusiasts - so it therefore does not qualify as "furthering" .NET.

People will have there own blogs there and I want more then 10 people to be able to do so - so the personal version does not qualify.

It's not a business, but I will sell advertising so that I don't have to pay for hosting out of my own pocket, so it's (strictly speaking) commercial.

As such, when compared to DNN w/ DNN-Blogs and DNN-Forums or SubText (for my needs) , Community Server is not free.

Community server rocks - but the less my hobbie costs me the better.

Joe

Joe Stagner

4/19/2007 4:49:08 PM

Thanks Rob,

But, much as I like community server, it's NOT free.

I want to set up a blogging community site for sports entheusiasts - so it therefore does not qualify as "furthering" .NET.

People will have there own blogs there and I want more then 10 people to be able to do so - so the personal version does not qualify.

It's not a business, but I will sell advertising so that I don't have to pay for hosting out of my own pocket, so it's (strictly speaking) commercial.

As such, when compared to DNN w/ DNN-Blogs and DNN-Forums or SubText (for my needs) , Community Server is not free.

Community server rocks - but the less my hobbie costs me the better.

Joe

Joe Stagner

4/19/2007 8:21:54 PM

@ Rob

I really feel the need to tell you one more time how INSANE are the latest changes on the CS licensing. How is that of limiting the number of forums and need more licenses if more are needed ? How do you feel entitled to tax my website success?
Do you guys think that a website owe you royalties for the use of your software? Because it is really that. You're trying to get royalties from the website owners.
Go and take a look at vBulletin and do something decent for god sake.

Craig

4/19/2007 11:27:38 PM

What's your problom with PHP, php is the best so Use world press or other php blog cms's,
Tnx nima.

nima abdollahzade

4/20/2007 1:14:22 AM

Heh, I dropped a comment on the msdn mirror, before discovering this.

Big yes to subtext, if only because bits of my code are in there. Right now it will do multi-blog. Skinning it yourself is, err, a little painful, and will be revamped in the 2.0 branch, as will administration and things like user databases for comments etc.

Yes it's free (BSD licensed), but it's not, as Bruno says, a parallel version of .Text. It was branched long long ago (well in dev terms), and well, mutated rather a lot. We do have some .Text legacy stuff there (the skinning for example), but it's slowly being rewritten (which is not to say it wasn't good in the first place).

Heck you're using it now :p

BarryD

4/20/2007 5:03:18 AM

How about this:

blog.madskristensen.dk/.../...n-BlogEngineNET.aspx

Anthony Grace

4/20/2007 3:52:04 PM

I wrote my own blog engine, and will let almost anyone "borrow" my code. It runs on ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005. It supports Windows Live Writer. I'd be happy to pass the code on to anyone who is interested. You can find my contact info in the footer of my blog.

DLarsen

4/20/2007 5:37:03 PM

Community Server used to be open source software (a large chunk begin what was formerly referred to as ASP.NET Forums) that had a lot of support from people inside and outside of Microsoft. A lot of people volunteered their free time to support it and help it become successful. However, now it isn't completely free and the people who supported it when it was open source pretty much wasted their time thinking they were doing something good for the community.

x

4/20/2007 8:19:29 PM

Hi,

On a similar note, has any one used any framework for publishing articles? I do not want it the blog way where my articles will be clubbed month wise/calendar wise. I want a way where users can browse the content Topic/subtopic wise.

Any ready made frameworks available?

Thanks.

Lalit

4/22/2007 12:54:14 AM

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College Jerseys

4/27/2007 12:46:30 PM

I am a hardcore .Net developer by day, but I found there are NO good blogging software for FREE on the Microsoft platform.
Community $erver charges way too much! This is a derivative of .Text, so I personally do not understand if it is even LEGAL to charge money for a project that used to be Open Source. In any case, I tried it, and it was VERY buggy. I have not looked into the current version however.
DotNetNuke IS really Free, and there are some good blogging options. This is what a real Open Source .Net community should be. However, their platform is built off MVC using plugins, so it is not directly made for just blogging. I have tried it, and it works ok.
If you really want to blog AND you want it syndicated, I would suggest using WordPress. It is a breeze to setup and multiple authors can use one install. That is the software I use on my blog at http://www.JSON.Com
If you want A LOT of authors to be able to sign up (a la mySpace), then use WordPress MU (multi-user), but that is more work to configure.
If you want the BEST open source platform, use Drupal. It takes more work to set up, but it is the software that GOOGLE and TIM BERNERS LEE use - need I say more?

Ric

4/30/2007 4:31:45 AM

Hey Joe,

I just stumbled across this and I think it looks pretty damn sweet

http://drupal.org/

Hope this helps

Josh Stodola

6/17/2007 7:27:28 AM

I have just set up my blog using Mads Kristensen's ASP.NET 2.0 blog engine. This is written in C# and is open-source. I did some customization to the theme and kept it xml-based for now even though there are DB providers available:

http://www.codersbarn.com

As scottgu would say, "Hope this helps"!

AnthonyGrace

6/18/2007 3:19:24 PM

Hi All,

I run a community based content generation system just like wikipedia and I am thinking of giving out a blog for each registered user. I wanted a blog engine(ASP.NET,C#) which I can integrate with the existing authentication mechanism. Basically, I am looking for a multi user, multi blog engine which can be integrated with the existing web application. I looked at Subtext, .text, SUB and others but none of them provides a "multi" platform for hosting user blogs. Can anyone point me to the right one?

thanks,
Kiran.

Kiran

4/2/2008 2:23:17 AM

Hi Kiran,
Did you find one .
Cheers,
Shantanu

Shantanu