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Ask HN: Best Minimal Blog Site?

5 points by joeyagreco 2y ago

I am looking for a more minimalist site to host my blog on (I currently use Medium). What blog sites have you seen or used that you would consider minimalist?

PaulHoule 2y ago
https://gohugo.io/ https://gohugo.io/ It's written in go but what's great about it, unlike many competitors written in Javascript or Python, is that it is just a simple binary you download and run, you do not need to get a PhD in the go build system to start a web site also it is crazy fast. It can publish a site to something like S3 or Azure Storage behind a CDN and you do not have to worry about anything other than paying the storage and bandwidth bills. Myself I've been procrastinating on getting myself a blog and my take is Hugo is not customizable enough for me without learning a lot of Go, so I have looked at are either Python-based or oriented towards scientific publishing oriented systems such as https://getpelican.com/ https://getpelican.com/ https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/ (I want to write stuff like https://ontology2.com/essays/PropertiesColorsAndThumbnails.html https://ontology2.com/essays/PropertiesColorsAndThumbnails.h...) I've given this list to people in your shoes and they usually react with information overload https://jamstack.org/generators/ https://jamstack.org/generators/ part of that is that there are 355 generators (there have to be some good ones in there somewhere) but it also uses the kind of miscommunication patterns we're used to in webtech where, for instance, you'd think they are pushing Javascript down your throat (the "J" stands for Javascript but the generators I've mentioned generate mostly HTML with just a little Javascript.) Pick something simple and run with it, if I did that 2 years ago I'd be blogging now.
- livo_ 2y ago
  +1 for Hugo -- have personally had a great experience compared to other tools I also really liked using Docsify for a while. For a personal blog, it works great.
johnydoe 2y ago
Prose.sh is as minimalist as you can get it
UmYeahNo 2y ago
Bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/
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danielovichdk 2y ago
https://mataroa.blog/ https://mataroa.blog/
chistev 2y ago
https://rxjourney.com.ng https://rxjourney.com.ng My personal blog inspired by Medium.
triilman 2y ago
https://tinymind.me https://tinymind.me your data are stored in your github repository. minimalist. support markdown.
threekindwords 2y ago
https://blot.im/ https://blot.im/
nicbou 2y ago
https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/
whitefables 2y ago
https://wisp.blog/ https://wisp.blog/ There's a template to get you started really quickly: https://github.com/Wisp-CMS/nextjs-blog-cms-wisp https://github.com/Wisp-CMS/nextjs-blog-cms-wisp
Turboblack 2y ago
http://web1.0hosting.net/ http://web1.0hosting.net/ Web 1.0 Hosting - is an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices such as retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellular phones as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement. Hosting of modern websites and the use of modern technologies are also permitted. There is also a search engine, web mail and web chat, working on both modern and legacy systems.
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5 points by joeyagreco 2y ago

I am looking for a more minimalist site to host my blog on (I currently use Medium). What blog sites have you seen or used that you would consider minimalist?

PaulHoule 2y ago

https://gohugo.io/ https://gohugo.io/ It's written in go but what's great about it, unlike many competitors written in Javascript or Python, is that it is just a simple binary you download and run, you do not need to get a PhD in the go build system to start a web site also it is crazy fast. It can publish a site to something like S3 or Azure Storage behind a CDN and you do not have to worry about anything other than paying the storage and bandwidth bills. Myself I've been procrastinating on getting myself a blog and my take is Hugo is not customizable enough for me without learning a lot of Go, so I have looked at are either Python-based or oriented towards scientific publishing oriented systems such as https://getpelican.com/ https://getpelican.com/ https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/ (I want to write stuff like https://ontology2.com/essays/PropertiesColorsAndThumbnails.html https://ontology2.com/essays/PropertiesColorsAndThumbnails.h...) I've given this list to people in your shoes and they usually react with information overload https://jamstack.org/generators/ https://jamstack.org/generators/ part of that is that there are 355 generators (there have to be some good ones in there somewhere) but it also uses the kind of miscommunication patterns we're used to in webtech where, for instance, you'd think they are pushing Javascript down your throat (the "J" stands for Javascript but the generators I've mentioned generate mostly HTML with just a little Javascript.) Pick something simple and run with it, if I did that 2 years ago I'd be blogging now.

livo_ 2y ago
+1 for Hugo -- have personally had a great experience compared to other tools I also really liked using Docsify for a while. For a personal blog, it works great.

johnydoe 2y ago

Prose.sh is as minimalist as you can get it

UmYeahNo 2y ago

Bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/

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danielovichdk 2y ago

https://mataroa.blog/ https://mataroa.blog/

chistev 2y ago

https://rxjourney.com.ng https://rxjourney.com.ng My personal blog inspired by Medium.

triilman 2y ago

https://tinymind.me https://tinymind.me your data are stored in your github repository. minimalist. support markdown.

threekindwords 2y ago

https://blot.im/ https://blot.im/

nicbou 2y ago

https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/

whitefables 2y ago

https://wisp.blog/ https://wisp.blog/ There's a template to get you started really quickly: https://github.com/Wisp-CMS/nextjs-blog-cms-wisp https://github.com/Wisp-CMS/nextjs-blog-cms-wisp

Turboblack 2y ago

http://web1.0hosting.net/ http://web1.0hosting.net/ Web 1.0 Hosting - is an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices such as retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellular phones as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement. Hosting of modern websites and the use of modern technologies are also permitted. There is also a search engine, web mail and web chat, working on both modern and legacy systems.

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