Ask HN: Preferred Platform to Blog

1

Micro.blog

This is probably not a popular answer. For my blog I use Tumblr. I don't have any complex needs and Tumblr does everything I need it to do. I use my own domain and a simple theme so most people that visit the website don't even realize it's hosted on Tumblr. Having said that, if I were to create a new blog right now I would most likely choose Github pages or https://micro.blog/.

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2

DEV.to

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3

GitHub Pages

As we are on HN, I'm going to assume that you are comfortable using Github and can follow instructions. Write it on Github and publish on your domain. Github has an option for you to fire up a web-editor (VSCode) right there in the browser with the keyboard `.` (<- that is a period). So, you can write right then and there (I do it quite often these days). When publishing, choose a Jekyll theme of your choice from Github Pages[1]. Your focus now are just enough plain text (Markdown). If you want to bring it to your desktop/device, just checkout the repo and write. These days, my choice is to just write in Obsidian and don't even try to run Jekyll. What do you get out of this? The simplicity of focusing on your writing with almost Plain Text while Github takes care of your theme, hosting, SSL, and custom domain[2]. Of course, you will need to book a domain and own it. I like Cloudflare[3] that takes care of pretty much everything you want to do with a domain for free. If you so wish, you can even let Cloudflare do the page building[4] and hosting while you keep Github for the source. Plug: I build a super simple Jekyll theme[5] just so I can do this. I wrote an article about it on my website[6]. 1. https://pages.github.com 2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site 3. https://www.cloudflare.com 4. https://pages.cloudflare.com 5. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/ 6. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/.

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4

Cloudflare Pages

As we are on HN, I'm going to assume that you are comfortable using Github and can follow instructions. Write it on Github and publish on your domain. Github has an option for you to fire up a web-editor (VSCode) right there in the browser with the keyboard `.` (<- that is a period). So, you can write right then and there (I do it quite often these days). When publishing, choose a Jekyll theme of your choice from Github Pages[1]. Your focus now are just enough plain text (Markdown). If you want to bring it to your desktop/device, just checkout the repo and write. These days, my choice is to just write in Obsidian and don't even try to run Jekyll. What do you get out of this? The simplicity of focusing on your writing with almost Plain Text while Github takes care of your theme, hosting, SSL, and custom domain[2]. Of course, you will need to book a domain and own it. I like Cloudflare[3] that takes care of pretty much everything you want to do with a domain for free. If you so wish, you can even let Cloudflare do the page building[4] and hosting while you keep Github for the source. Plug: I build a super simple Jekyll theme[5] just so I can do this. I wrote an article about it on my website[6]. 1. https://pages.github.com 2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site 3. https://www.cloudflare.com 4. https://pages.cloudflare.com 5. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/ 6. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/.

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5

Hugo

I use Hugo [0] and host on Netlify. Couldn't be happier. I used Wordpress and Jekyll previously, but Hugo has been a good upgrade. The problem with Wordpress is that it's difficult to export content if you ever decide to move, unless you love dealing with SQL and format conversion. It's also too annoying to host since it requires a db, while static site generators like Hugo/Jekyll can be deployed anywhere without dependencies. [0] https://gohugo.io/.

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6

Logseq

Another option is Logseq [1], which is not a blogging app <i>per se</i>, but a good visual outliner/note-taking piece of software (for both the desktop and mobile), based plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files, that can publish a complete static site, with customizable themes, for you to host it wherever you want. [1] <https://logseq.com>.

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7

WriteFreely

Https://write.as/ to publish on Fediverse (or https://writefreely.org for Self Hosted instance)?

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Write.as

Https://write.as/ to publish on Fediverse (or https://writefreely.org for Self Hosted instance)?

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