Are there any open source blogging platforms that are a good alternative to Ghost.org? (Besides Wordpress)
Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#2You could use Gurlic, although it's still being worked on, and I don't promise the polish or feature set of ghost/wordpress/medium.
Here's an example.
https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i
Themed: https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked
Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way: https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#3Depends on what kind of system you want. Hugo could be an alternative.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#4If you are looking for a light system and do not mind doing some minimal setup, try out Jekyll/Hugo/Gatsby. All of these have a good developer support.
For hosting you can try https://netlify.app/ or https://pages.github.com/ .
Both of these provide a free tier.
Example : My website built using Jekyll , hosted on github. https://97amarnathk.github.io/
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#5What is wrong with wordpress ? Asking bc I use it to host a few blogs.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#6I host my blog https://miguendes.me on hashnode.com and I'm very happy.
I used to lose tons of time setting up hugo/jekyll and not writing anything.
Once I move to hashnode I could focus on writing only as most of the things are out of the box.
Most importantly, the content is yours and you can back the data up on github automatically.
The only minor downside is that the images you upload is stored in their CDN. But you can host it yourself if you prefer.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#7Is Drupal still around? I used that when Wordpress didn't do what I wanted. This was years ago though.
I'm content with Hugo for blogs now.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#8I'm quite liking https://getgrav.org. With the admin plugin it's a neat combo of flat file and actual CMS.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#9What is wrong with wordpress ? Asking bc I use it to host a few blogs.
For me, it's become too clunky for a basic blog, and the fact that it stores your content in a database makes managing it a pain. It ties me to Wordpress and only Wordpress - anything I want to do requires logging in and navigating the admin interface, which I'm not a fan of.
By comparison, flat-file CMS's allow me to edit, search and process my content using whatever tool I like. I can update my blog directly in the terminal, or in Github from work and have the changes pushed out automatically by CI. They're not making hundreds of database calls every time I want a page, so they're blazing fast. I can have simple scripts output to a text file and have it rendered as a status page. And if I want to migrate to another solution, my content is literally a bunch of text files that I can just copy to whatever shiny new thing just caught my eye.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
#10Hi! I'm the founder of https://www.dynablogger.com - there's a free plan so it's easy to give it a try and you can import content from WordPress and Ghost. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions