Ask HN: What blogging platform are you using these days?

[dmuth]

I use Drupal for my legacy website: http://www.dmuth.org/

Medium for updates on my latest project: https://medium.com/septa-stats

And Jekyll on GitHub pages for a side project I did awhile ago: http://www.allaboutcheetahs.info/

The reasons behind these:

- Drupal: My website used to have a lot of static content, and I wanted to keep the content there while writing blog posts going forward

- Medium: There's a lot of people on it already, and I really like the interface

- Jekyll: I wanted to learn a static site generator as well as brush up on my CSS. (and the world needs more websites about cheetahs, tbh)

[andrewmcwatters]

Haha! After reading the site and your HN profile, I was thoroughly delighted. Pretty neat.

[alexgaribay]

I use Ghost on Digital Ocean with a $5 VM. The writing interface is very clean and simple. Plus it's very nice to write in Markdown and see an unstyled real-time preview of the content. Ghost fulfills everything I'm looking for in a blogging platform. It is also pretty easy to write your own theme.

[Arcsech]

Same - I might use a static site generator, but my wife wanted a blog with an in-browser editor, and since it's very easy to host multiple Ghost blogs on a single server with some nginx configuration, I decided to just go with that for my own as well.

Works well since neither of them are very high traffic.

[codegeek]

same here for personal blog. But for professional blog, I feel that WordPress works better because I end up needing some of the extra functionality that WordPress plugins provide.

[aarmenante]

Plus you can get it pre-installed!

[danso]

For a long time, Wordpress...now, Jekyll - being able to just pop open my text editor and jot notes is a behavior-changing level of friction-reduction...Wordpress is nice, but the time it took to login, click through to get to the posting interface, etc., meant that I really had to have wanted to blog to go through that hassle. Nevermind doing any kind of style/design changes, which required a mix of going through the clunky Editor UI, working directly from FTP, and at various points, just saying "Fuck it" and writing inline CSS.

I used Tumblr for awhile as a photoblog. It worked out nicely and I enjoyed the social features. The main benefit was I learned not to underestimate the psychological impact of interface and friction...I spent little time comparatively on Tumblr, but I created around 1,500+ posts...sure, some of it was fluff, but the ease of publishing got me more into the groove of sharing my work and recording my thoughts. With my standard blog, the barrier to posting made me reluctant to try new things, or to blog "just for fun".

[andyhnj]

I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it.

I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good solution for Blogger-to-Drupal import that worked for me. (At the time, I was doing a fair amount of Drupal work at my day job, so it seemed like a good idea, but in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't work out.)

I know there's a lot of stuff out there that's "cooler" than WordPress, but I like it. The ecosystem for plugins and themes is huge. You can find most anything you want, usually for free.

I'm hosting my blog on a plain vanilla shared Linux host, rather than on WordPress.com or another managed host. I like the flexibility of doing it that way. It's a little bit of work to keep up with plugin updates, but not much.

[pravj]

Jekyll using GitHub Pages.

I have developed a few themes and plugins for it.

Website: http://pravj.github.io

Current Theme: https://github.com/pravj/Etios

Others:

https://github.com/pravj/wiggle

https://github.com/pravj/modified-lanyon

https://github.com/pravj/Cursor

https://github.com/pravj/Harry

[RexM]

I use a static site generator called wintersmith. http://wintersmith.io/

It's hosted on AWS using Route53, S3, and CloudFront. My blog isn't very popular, so hosting costs less than $1/month.

[steeef]

Hugo[0] (static site generator), site hosted with Caddy[1] (go web server with a lot of stuff like auto-SSL from Let's Encrypt for free) running as a Docker container on a DigitalOcean droplet:

https://stp5.net/blog/

Works pretty well, and I like Hugo's lightweight templating formats. I can draft up a new blog article, test it locally, then push to GitHub, which has a webhook to my blog host which does a pull and blam: new content.

[0] https://gohugo.io/

[1] https://caddyserver.com/

[emdd]

Caddy looks great. Thanks.

[mcjiggerlog]

Poet[1], a simple node blog generator which plugged pretty nicely into my existing node personal website. I did a quick write-up of the process of using it.[2]

[1] http://jsantell.github.io/poet/

[2] https://tomjwatson.com/blog/using-poet-as-a-blog-generator

[spinningarrow]

Jekyll/GitHub Pages, mostly.

[dullroar]

Home-rolled solution using Markdown, pandoc and make.

[maglavaitss]

Tinambo, single file flat-file CMS/blogging app with encrypted content. https://vox.space/projects/36/tinambo and https://github.com/voxspace/tinambo

[ShinyCyril]

I'm also using the Python-based Pelican for my personal blog [1]. I was originally using a homebrew solution, but decided to switch over to something a little better-tested. The Fabric deployment options [2] are really great. Of course the static nature means that a JavaScript-based comment system is needed, for which I'm loving Isso [3] - it's self-hosted, lightweight, doesn't have spam issues and respects user privacy.

[1] https://mikeanthonywild.com

[2] http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.6.3/publish.html

[3] https://posativ.org/isso/

[CaptSpify]

My own! https://blog.thekyel.com/

I built a minimal php page that just pump out html from text files. All of the blogging platforms that I looked at were terribly bloated. I built this in a couple of hours. No DBs, no css, and no JS.

KISS

[rufius]

Code?

[michaelmior]

My personal blog[0] uses the Wintersmith[1] static site generator with content hosted on Surge[2]. I previously used nanoc[3] but started to find it was more complicated than necessary for my needs. If you happen to be interested, the source[4] of my site is on GitHub.

[0] https://michael.mior.ca/

[1] http://wintersmith.io/

[2] https://surge.sh/

[3] http://nanoc.ws/

[4] https://github.com/michaelmior/michael.mior.ca

[nfriedly]

Docpad (Node.js/Coffee Script), generated on Travis CI and published to Github pages.. but I don't blog very often. Mostly I use it to keep my portfolio up to date.

I might do something different if I were starting from scratch today, but it's worked well enough so far.

[krat0sprakhar]

Hugo on Github Pages.

Blog: http://prakhar.me Repo: https://github.com/prakhar1989/hugo-blog

[hxm]

I use Hugo, which is great for my relatively simple site: http://chestradiologists.org

I had substantial help with site design as I know very little about HTML/CSS, etc. Now it's simple for me to write new posts in Markdown while previewing the result in realtime with the built-in http server.

I deploy it easily using Cyberduck/SFTP and its synchronization feature.

For my daughter's blog— she likes to write posts using a browser-based editor with a preview feature— I use Ghost on a Digital Ocean droplet.

[kanche]

Hugo- It's a static site generator written in Go. Quite easy to setup and maintain.

[genjipress]

Attempting to build my own:

https://github.com/syegulalp/MeTal/

(Been dormant as I've been busy with other things, but making slow progress)

[ericzawo]

Recently moved to Wordpress from Tumblr, but I'm very interested in something like Hexo where I can host the server myself and just push new webpages online, which would also definitely teach me more about the web.