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I haven't tried drupal.
I have tried Joomla (on crack. I just don't quite understand how the people using it can call it intuitive), Mambo (see my Joomla snide comment), PostNuke (rocks, pure and simple. Very Free), DotNetNuke( pretty good, more stable than postnuke, slightly. Free, but apps usually cost) and most recently, Community Server.

Community Server runs exclusively on the Microsoft web application platform. This enables Community Server to focus on being the best of breed solution versus being limited by common denominators across multiple vendors' web application platforms.

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Top result: http://www.google.com/search?q=coding+blog is powered by something I'd never heard of called Community Server http://communityserver.org/.

I'm currently using one of the popular blog hosting services, but find it lacking when it comes to handling source code snippets in posts.

I can see what you mean after swiftly browsing some of the other sites that came near the top of the above search... I would have thought WordPress would have a plugin though...

You know, the Sharepoint team has been blogging for quite some time, and they've got a product that quite usable. Hell, why not use their own blogs.msdn.com? And when it comes down to it, why not use one of the millions of free blogging services or apps already available?

Instead they're running off Community Server. Just look at their prices.

I'm just saying it's interesting that they've got in-house products they're not using, there are free services they're not using, and there are free packages they could run that they're not using. Instead they go for a most-likely limited commercial something.

Q: What shortcomings endanger the forum's future ? A: Forums are *VERY* poor information repositories. That is their biggest downfall. Their biggest strength is the ease of posting and the relatively informal back and forth that occurs on them. I am creating an online community, but I hope to make the posts more information oriented vs. just Q n A and banter. A newer addition to the forum scene is CommunityServer.org's version. They have implemented a tagging system that is truly a revolution. All aspects of the site (blogs and forums for sure) can have tags. Check this out http://communityserver.org/forums/default.aspx and click on a few tags to the right of the forums. Let's say you clicked on the "Install Problems" tag ... well that would give you a list of the "Install Problems" *regardless of what forum it was posted in*. After clicking on a Tag you can keep clicking tags ... like then click "2.1". Then you are looking at Install problems dealing with version 2.1. Cool eh ? Searching on tags is possible because individual forum posts can be "Tagged". It is interesting to note that the tagging process is quite quick. I believe tags can help keep valuable forum information accessible. Great article here !

Allow me to give you a Microsoft based solution (open sourced though!). http://communityserver.org/Default.aspx

Blogs, forums, files, photos, RSS feeds, role based security, etc. I use it to host a site for all my old college friends. The SQL server database is quite happy on both of the free MS SQL offerings, Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) and SQL Express. Only the blog and forum postings and settings are stored in the database. The files and photos are stores in the file system.

Community Server rocks! Probably the most powerful blogging platform out there right now for blog communities. I use it on my personal site too and it works great.

Community Server is a widely used blogging software written in C#. It also has photo galleries, file galleries, and message boards. CS is the successor of .Text and is what powers Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet blogs.