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I signed up for this the other day and so far really love it. Write a markdown/text file in Dropbox and within 30 seconds or so it's published as a nicely-rende
by ryanianian 8y ago
I signed up for this the other day and so far really love it. Write a markdown/text file in Dropbox and within 30 seconds or so it's published as a nicely-rendered blog post. As someone who used Jekyll for years and got tired of running hosting and doing rsyncs etc, this is really nice for personal blogging.
The usability of the blot.im site itself is a bit lacking. You get a totally different UI when you're logged in, and the links to documentation on how to format your posts and what the different dropbox folders mean are gone. I had to open an Incognito window to find the documentation (spoiler: https://blot.im/help https://blot.im/help). The service is dead-simple to use and supports a wide variety of posting styles and formats.
- dmerfield 8y agoGlad to hear you like it so far. I’m working on a redesign of the dashboard to bring it in line with the front-facing site. I know it’s not good enough as it is and I promise it’ll be fixed. p.s. I recently added support for git if you’d rather not use Dropbox (https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968 https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968). And as a point of trivia, Blot launched just under four years ago here on HN in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183498
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- robotkdick 8y agoThanks for posting the link to the previous thread. And congratulations! Blot is a marvel in simplicity.
- gabcoh 8y agoIf you like Jekyll, GitHub pages has first class support for it. All you have to do is commit a new file for github pages to rebuild your site.
- lloeki 8y agoGitLab Pages is only slightly more involved in the setup but the end result is the same, with the added bonus that you can completely customise the pipeline, including not using Jekyll but e.g Hugo (sample[0]) or whatever else you fancy as a generator. [0]: https://gitlab.com/pages/hugo https://gitlab.com/pages/hugo
- jacquesm 8y agoThat's how medium started. And look where that got us.
- atom_arranger 8y agoI switched to using Netlify for Jekyll. So much easier. Just push to github and it'll build and update the site. It also handles Let's Encrypt.