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Ask HN: Where Do You “Blog”?
Most free-as-in-beer publishing platforms are either focused on little to no text (tumblr, twitter, fabook, instagram) or won't work without javascript (blogger)
is there still a convenient place for long form text for the occasional long-lived post?
- paulrpotts 8y agoI use Blogger but I don't create my content on Blogger. This is probably a dumb workflow, but I write in Markdown, and use pandoc to convert to HTML, then paste the generated HTML into Blogger posts. The idea is that I can also use the same Markdown source to create a PDF or turn it into something like an OpenOffice document that I can format better for print. I haven't come up with a good way to easily generate a book manuscript I'm really satisfied with, though. Various difficulties especially managing indexing and tables of contents and pagination are making this hard. Wish I had a better answer.
- noinipopopnu 8y agoYou could try github pages + markdown(they suggest Jekyll, but I'm sure there's a number of options).
- MivLives 8y agoI use Medium. Their posts are viewable without JS but you do have to have it on to submit. You can also use Gatsby + Netlify. https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog
- ChrisGranger 8y agoMaybe have a look at write.as. https://write.as/ https://write.as/