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Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?
I would like to know what platform are you using for blogging at this moment. I'm trying to decide which one to use! At the moment I can't afford to host my own blog.
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoBlogEngine.NET running on DiscountASP.NET - I had used WordPress for three years and wanted to try something else. WordPress is still the best platform all-around, but I think it's easier to extend BlogEngine.NET.
- tsenart 16y agoOh forgot to tell you that I'm on a Mac... Even with Mono I prefer to stay native.
- philcrissman 16y agototo! http://cloudhead.io/toto http://cloudhead.io/toto
- tsenart 16y agoI know toto (and jekyll as well) but as I told you I can't afford hosting... And Heroku's network performance is really not good at this time (at least for Lisbon, Portugal, Europe with a 100MB Fiber Up-Down Link).
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoYou could just use Posterous.
- kaerast 16y agoI'm using Tumblr for my personal blog, have been for years, but am starting to become very unhappy with their stability problems. I'm using Wordpress (self hosted and Wordpress.com) for a number of other sites and I'm very happy with it. There's loads of themes and plugins for Wordpress, many of which are free, and it's fairly easy to customise.
- tsenart 16y agoThanks for your comment. I have to say I am a bit hurt by Wordpress UX and (no flamewar intended) its PHPness. I think I am going for Posterous. If I could host my own blog there are three interesting options I would ponder: toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto http://cloudhead.io/toto jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com http://jekyllrb.com timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless
- Deadsunrise 16y agoI have 3 nanoc ( http://nanoc.stoneship.org http://nanoc.stoneship.org ) blogs: http://frozenlabs.com/blog http://frozenlabs.com/blog , http://deadsunrise.net http://deadsunrise.net and http://vivirdescalzo.com http://vivirdescalzo.com deadsunrise.net started as a sinatra app, then wordpress, now nanoc with markdown or haml. Nanoc is cool and they are static pages so you can host them anywhere.
- tsenart 16y agoAfter all I'm using posterous! Here it is: http://mindimension.posterous.com http://mindimension.posterous.com
- user24 16y agoI've been using wordpress on http://puremango.co.uk http://puremango.co.uk for a year and a half with no major complaints. It's easy to set up and modify which is a big plus. edit: Oh, and I also use it on http://sciencewallpaper.com http://sciencewallpaper.com and http://geekwallpapers.com http://geekwallpapers.com
- tsenart 16y agoOk. Making a resume: If you're a ruby-mentality guy and have some money for hosting then check these out (in no specific order): Enki - https://github.com/xaviershay/enki https://github.com/xaviershay/enki Toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto http://cloudhead.io/toto Jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com http://jekyllrb.com Nanoc - http://nanoc.stoneship.org http://nanoc.stoneship.org Timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless Otherwise... Just use Posterous. :P
- joshbert 16y agoGood old Posterous. I have 2 blogs in there and I love it.
- damoncali 16y agoI use Blogger. It has customizable CSS, lets you use custom domains, and scaling is never a worry. All for free. I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would pay for blogging software or hosting.
- swanson 16y agoGithub pages
- ig1 16y agoI'm using Posterous for my company blog and Blogger for my personal blogs. I'm happy with both of them. I've used wordpress and livejournal in the past but wouldn't really use them for a new blog.