Bear Blog Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• WordPress Alternatives

  If you are looking for a no-nonsense, simple blog platform consider Bear[1] - It's super simple to use, and has been solid for me for the past year. Plus the support (and dev - Herman Martinus here on HN[2]) is responsive and friendly. [1] https://bearblog.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• The Static Site Paradox

  Or people could find a middle ground and join https://bearblog.dev Simple, has text-focused CMS, lightweight and content generated is static. Plus, dev is a nice guy. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

  I'd noticed some years back that this project seems to have started with a pretty strong anonymity story: https://write.as/ That seemed to diminish in emphasis a few years ago, stopped accepting accounts that didn't give you a credit card end of 2021, and some year recently (last year? I forget…) seemed as though the warrant canary missed a couple updates. (It's up to date now, with an assertion of no warrants... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• A single ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k

  Heads up Bear [1] is just the blogging platform, not the company this post is about. [1] https://bearblog.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Creating Smooth Hover Effects for Menu Icons

  It's been a while since I worked with stylesheets. I have always been a software developer focused mostly on backend functionality. Recently, however, I started using the Bear blogging platform for my personal website, which allows you to customize its built-in themes. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

  Substack has problems too. For hosted foss services, write.as (https://write.as/) and bearblog (https://bearblog.dev/) are good. If self-hosting, the choices are infinite. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

  I really like https://bearblog.dev It helps you get focused on just writing while removing all the unnecessary stuff. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  BearBlog - Minimalist, Markdown-powered blog and website builder. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Cool blogging platform

  Been really invested in Bear Blog recently - simple lil platform that gets me writing really quickly. I've been on and off with WordPress for years, but it always bogs me down with all the hoops I need to jump through to get my pages looking how I want. But now I'm speeding through writing all kinds of things :D So just wanted to share in case anyone else just wants to focus on getting their writing out without... Source: 10 months ago

• Ask HN: How to host a personal website and not get shot in the face?

  I'll add onto your list of recs with https://bearblog.dev/ in case someone else sees the comment and would like to find possible hosts for their own blog. Thank you for your comment. I take your word to heart, I've thought about throwing in the towel and letting someone else do the worrying about hosting but then again, I find it fun to play around with a personal page and if there's ever a need to scale outwards... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Google no longer automatically indexes sites

  I run the blogging platform Bear Blog and recently received an email from a user saying that their website isn't showing up on Google and if he was doing something wrong. After digging into it I didn't see anything wrong with his blog, Bear Blog having a perfect lighthouse score for both performance and SEO. Source: over 1 year ago

• Some Blogging Myths

  I recommend https://bearblog.dev (free) or https://ghost.org (paid) It's fun to set up static site generators but I think it's better to pick something you can start writing in immediately instead of spending time thinking about what to use. If you end up enjoying blogging you can switch to different software later if you like. But don't let that stop you from starting to write now. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Seeking Webhosting Advice and Guidance

  Probably the fastest blog that is simple to use (and only costs $5 per month) is Bear. You also don't have to manage the "server stack". Source: over 1 year ago

• Best blog platform for geeky health blog

  Https://bearblog.dev is as geeky and fast as you get. Source: over 1 year ago

• Send Text Securely

  This seems to be from the founder of bearblog, a "privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform". [0] [0] https://bearblog.dev. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"?

  Https://bearblog.dev seems like a good alternative for simple, clean, good looking blogs. Prioritizes quick loading and efficient web design. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Chunking strings in Elixir: how difficult can it be?

  Thanks for the kind words :), it is inspired by the minimalistic Bear Blog (I didn't create the template myself, just reused this template). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric blogging platforms?

  A lot of people seem to like https://bearblog.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites

  See also https://prose.sh (I guess `prose` is a popular name in this space) and https://bearblog.dev. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• free-for.dev

  BearBlog - Minimalist, and Markdown powered blog and website builder. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• The Privacy Dad - Blog about online privacy

  You should do it. Check out bearblog.dev for a really simple, open source blogging platform. The creator, Herman, is great and responds to mails. Source: almost 2 years ago