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Ask HN: Human-friendly hosted blog platform?
"Why aren’t you more serious?" [1] brought back memories of writing a blog on a free-as-in-beer hosted platform and then stopping because I realized readers without ad blockers were being served ads.
To me, human-friendly means:
- Absolutely no ads shown to any user, ever, for any reason. A blog is a blog is a blog, not an advertising platform.
- Sysadmining, including things like DDOS protection, package updates, making sure there's enough disk space, etc. is handled completely by the host company, not me. I'd love to have the time to self-host, but I don't.
- Comments work out of the box, which means a spam filter and manual moderation are a must.
- Web feed of articles.
- Basic anonymous metrics like reads per article per day.
- Easy backup/export of articles, media and comments to a portable format.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537147
- aminozuur 6y agoI would love to help you make this. I can do the design and all the front-end code. If anyone's interested, feel free to reach out (@aminozuur).
- topkai22 6y agoI'm using GitHub pages: https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/ It's human friendly to end users, but very developer centric. Its not going to be human friendly to writers.
- l0b0 6y agoCan you add comments to that without a lot of extra work? I got started on a simple markdown solution, but stopped because it looked like I'd need to develop or use a third party comments system.