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Am I missing something or is Jekyll an outrageously user unfriendly blogging platform? I have to create a text file, specify the layout, ensure the timestamp a
by pclark 14y ago
Am I missing something or is Jekyll an outrageously user unfriendly blogging platform?
I have to create a text file, specify the layout, ensure the timestamp and title is in the filename, and then write HTML.
I am stunned no one has made a simple scaffold that lets me create a post with a button click and then use markdown to write, on a simple web app.
- sprice 14y agoYou're looking for http://prose.io http://prose.io, built to work with Jekyll.
- straws 14y agoOK, this project and that Substance editor are amazing.
- bryogenic 14y agoYour final remark could be genuine, but I would rather assume you are sarcastically talking about github pages [http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/].
- dbaupp 14y agoMost of your points actually mean that Jekyll is fairly simple and customisable, which is user friendly for some users. (Others don't want/need this customisability and so it is unfriendly for them.)
- jvc26 14y agoUm, you can use Markdown, and in the context of Github pages (http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/), that is exactly what you're talking about ...
- hayksaakian 14y agoI was genuinely unaware of the connection here. Thanks for posting that.
- jvzr 14y agoIt is indeed extremely user unfriendly at the start. You have to spend a god awful amount of time setting everything up, but in the end it's worth it IMHO. I've been blogging for 3 years now with Jekyll, and typically my "new post workflow" consists in sending an email to a private address. It's all automatic from there on.