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There is just a question for me: Why we don't have something like WordPress or Movable Type for .NET? Is there any similar tool for .NET? I haven't seen yet.

Last night I saw this blog and read its Copyright section:

Major Nelson.com is powered by WordPress 1.5 since there was no similar .NET solution.

Community Server is better than WordPress or Movable Type because it's tested in many famous and popular websites. But this comparing is wrong. CS is a powerful online community but Wordpress is a simple and famous CMS. WordPress can't handle the number of CS visitors but you can install and configure it in just 5 minutes and it doesn't need any knowledge about database and programming but ...!

But if you want to install and use CS first should have some information about SQL server and ASP.NET. You can't simply design several themes for CS but it's a simple process for WordPress or Movable Type. Upgrading is as same as installing and you can't do it easily! It's not big difference for DasBlog.

I say again: This comparing is wrong but I think that it's necessary to have similar CMS for .NET. In last weeks Robert Scoble migrated to WordPress.Com and they hosted him for free but still he has some problems with commenting system!

5 Comments : 10.25.05

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#1
MiladKDZ
10.27.2005 @ 6:57 AM

Lets write one ;)

#2
Keyvan Nayyeri
10.27.2005 @ 7:14 AM

I'm going to plan another project but don't know what! But be sure that it's not a blogging tool. I've written many web applications for blogging in last 3 years and dislike to do it again ;) I'm thinking to find good topic and work on it in free times as a hobby. Do you have any suggestion?

#3
jayson knight
10.28.2005 @ 3:12 AM

It's always a tradeoff between manageability vs complexity. CS is much more complicated than either WP or MT (or dasBlog), and is therefore not for the faint of heart to get up and running. We're technical people, so it's no problem for us, but for 95% of the general population, it's just too dificult. Telligent has built an entire business off of custom CS installations for corporate customers...the same cannot be said for most other open source CMS type solutions on the market (maybe DNN). As far as rolling your own blogging application, I totally agree...my first blog was one I wrote myself, and it was terrible compared to the other offerings at the time. The whole blogging landscape simply changes too often to try and keep up with it, so I leave it to the ISV's who specialize in that arena. But I do think that CS is hands down the best offering out there right now.

#4
Major Nelson
03.25.2006 @ 12:14 AM

I would LOVE to use a simple, .NET based blogging tool that has similar features to Wordpress. While I can't speak for Scoble, I would move that that solution. I am currently trying to get CS working, and it's WAAAY to much for what I need. In addition, it's STILL not on feature parity with Wordpress

#5
Keyvan Nayyeri
07.03.2007 @ 7:38 AM

Can you post something else when your friends on Subtext team are nominated to win two awards?! As those

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