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Anyone feel amazed at how many blogs are under a {user}.github.io domain? Github is not just about open source, it's a blogging platform too. People forget that
by legrande 5y ago
Anyone feel amazed at how many blogs are under a {user}.github.io domain? Github is not just about open source, it's a blogging platform too. People forget that.
- mxuribe 5y agoI feel somewhat torn on folks having a blog hosted on {user}.github.io; well, at least an indie blog. One of the fun points of having an indie website is not depending/nor hosting it on a centralized service...though, i can totally acknowledge that sometimes cost is a factor. So for some folks - to avoid hosting/tech. costs - leveraging a free, though central platform might be one of the few ways to have a web presence. Then again, i would miuch rather live in a world where there are tons of indie websites, even if they have to live on github's infrastructure; the more indie, the better!
- jmmv 5y agoDoes it count if we host on GitHub Pages but use a custom domain? I do that to have the freedom to move out, which is what I’m about to do to gain some features elsewhere.
- mxuribe 5y agoI am by no means an arbiter of what counts or does not. :-) That being said, whatever freedoms you can exercise is always a great thing! If you leverage github underneath as a platform via a custom domain to run your indie blog, then i say go for it! At least that is better than an alternative like living as a sharecropper on someone else's digital land like Medium.com, etc.
- MaxLeiter 5y agoI did some scraping of the same post as OP and found that 146 (21%) of the HN comments on the “share your personal site” were github pages. It’s popular!