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> Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs It helps that Jekyll, one such static blog, was also pushed by GitHub back in the day.
by minimaxir 1y ago
> Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs
It helps that Jekyll, one such static blog, was also pushed by GitHub back in the day.
- lblume 1y agoWas Jekyll ever that popular though?
- johannes1234321 1y agoIt certainly populated the "Mark Town to static HTML" blogging approach and created the room for its successors.
- nirvdrum 1y agoI can’t provide usage numbers, but it used to be the happy path for using GitHub Pages. I suppose static site generation was fairly niche so “popular” may not be the right word. I think Jekyll was a big fish in a little pond, however.