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Sort of a "magazine theme" or a "newspaper theme" for a SSG.
Also, do you know any SSG which allow me to have a really complete home page like http://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/ , where I can clearly display separated category with last articles by category, and with a thumbnail automatically attached to the post ? Sort of a "magazine theme" or a "newspaper theme" for a SSG.
EDIT: Maybe what I'm missing is that other SSGs are very opinionated, while Lektor is not.
The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.
You should try Lektor ( https://www.getlektor.com/ ). It has a flexible data structure with little assumption about the final product.
Sort of related and shameless plug but I'm building a "comments as a service" application that isn't disqus. My first target market is static sites. Check it out here: http://www.remarkbox.com
Also sort of a related, shameless plug-- I've been working on Formingo ( https://www.formingo.co ), a form processing service for static sites so you can receive your form submissions directly to your email without the need for server side code or your own backend. I've actually had a couple people ask me about comment systems that were an alternative to (and more simple than) Disqus, so it's cool to see someone work…
I only need a POST endpoint that will accept a few parameters and redirect back to my success page, and I will definitely keep your service in mind for that.
Although, how do you keep everyone from sending spam from you?
I have been eyeing Lektor[1] for a little while, it seems to have good documentation, and an interesting, opinionated dev behind it. 1: https://www.getlektor.com/
Is there some way to use a static site generator with a flat file database utilising standard CRUD functionality? To me, using a static site generator and handing off database to another service like firebase or other sas, although works really well and has many benefits is still an external dependency I would rather live without. It also somewhat defeats the point of using a statit site gen for my use case anyway. T…
What are people using for hosting? I've thought about using github pages, but css ended up being severely limited.
GitLab Pages https://pages.gitlab.io/ it also supports private repos and nearly every static site generator through gitlab ci
The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…
Maybe what you want to do is have a link that sends you to the HN submission page with the fields pre-populated. That wouldn't be so bad.
The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…
Most SSGs have some kind of plugin system (both Pelican and Lektor certainly do) that would allow you do something like what you want with the HN integration you're considering.
Alternatively, you could use something like Isso (https://github.com/posativ/isso), Kaiju (https://github.com/spf13/kaiju), or Hashover (https://github.com/jacobwb/hashover). I don't use any of these, so I can't really tell you how good they are, but they're options, and far from the only options.
The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…
That would be absolutely awful. Imagine if every site did that. Would this be a site you would want to visit? Maybe what you want to do is have a link that sends you to the HN submission page with the fields pre-populated. That wouldn't be so bad.