The other day a friend and I were discussing blog and forum software, and whether there were any good combination blog/forum products out there that were reasonably priced.

We'd both tried CommunityServer and found it was not really appropriate for our needs, and neither of us knew of any other prominent alternatives.  The reasoning for our discussion was that we'd both noticed a potential for dual-use web sites offering both blog and forum features; sort of a "here's what I think...discuss amongst yourselves" kind of an approach.

He is off now investigating the hazards of writing his own forum software, but while we were looking into ways to potentially allow single sign-on between BlogEngine.Net and [insert your favorite forum software here], we noticed something interesting...More...