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Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by matsemann »

cyberferret wrote: post #26

The author seems adamant that blog.domain.com is a worse setup than domain.com/blog - I've seen this argument go back and forth a lot, with both sides claiming advantages and disadvantages. I am interested to hear the consensus from HN users as to which is better, and why.

As he said, a sub domain is often considered a separate domain when it comes to SEO. His other arguments about naming seems rather hand-wavy, though.

Security-wise, a subdomain can also be a different origin. Which is often positive, so a flaw in your blogging software doesn't allow someone to extract cookies or so from the main site.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by guitarbill »

stilisstuk wrote: post #23

Are Hugo really substantially better than say pelican or Nikola or all the other 'established' SSG?

not really. although hugo is pretty established, too. for a personal blog, i'd just pick one and run with it. getting stuff out is more important than the "right" generator.

(that said, personally, i prefer the runtime hackability of pelican, and i don't find the speed of generation to matter much under 200 posts)

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by cluoma »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #11

I keep wanting to use Hugo, and I have made a few attempts. Moving away from Wordpress and its problems would be good. I do think a few features are missing that I find valuable: * Search (you can add it as an external service I haven't found one I trust and like yet. * Comments, there are several third-party comment providers that I can use, I tried out Disqus for a while but I didnt like nor trust them. I look at u…

I use commento[1] on my site, running on my own server so no third party has access. I do not get many comments though so I don't know how it handles higher load.

[1] https://gitlab.com/commento/commento

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by devasiajoseph »

franze wrote: post #19
stock_toaster wrote: post #16

I used hugo for a while, but found myself struggling against it more often than I liked. I have since moved on to using other options.

What other options?

(Not OP)Shameless plug: Please take a look at Wemebox CMS https://wemebox.com. I created this because I wanted a dead simple CMS for the websites I create for my clients.I believe it is much simpler than Hugo. Will be open sourcing the source code in a couple of months.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by bovermyer »

johnchristopher wrote: post #29
cyberferret wrote: post #26

The author seems adamant that blog.domain.com is a worse setup than domain.com/blog - I've seen this argument go back and forth a lot, with both sides claiming advantages and disadvantages. I am interested to hear the consensus from HN users as to which is better, and why.

I have some reasons to prefer domain.com/thing now : - You don't have to add and manage subdomain - You don't have to stop and restart the reverse-proxy of your VPS - Only one cert to deal with (I use traefik w/ automatic LE renewal but that implied more things to set up on the chain) But I still use blog.domain.com because I find it prettier. And when I need to type it in the URL bar it's just $service .domain . Now…

Those three concerns are one-off operations with minimal time investment, even if you don't automate most of the process.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by sonar_un »

franze wrote: post #19
stock_toaster wrote: post #16

I used hugo for a while, but found myself struggling against it more often than I liked. I have since moved on to using other options.

What other options?

I have been using Hexo for quite some time and it's very easy to use and setup. It's the node alternative to Hugo which uses Go.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by kingosticks »

jelger wrote: post #14

I like the idea of static blogs. However, I didn't accomplish to find a great workflow to use hugo from my android phone while traveling. Using git on a phone is a pain

I found an app called Teddy Hyde[0] which is designed to make this workflow easier. It's focused around Jekyll but perhaps it's flexible enough for Huge also? Ultimately I couldn't get myself to write anything regularly so I gave up with the whole idea, but the app seemed decent.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde...

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by rob74 »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #11

I keep wanting to use Hugo, and I have made a few attempts. Moving away from Wordpress and its problems would be good. I do think a few features are missing that I find valuable: * Search (you can add it as an external service I haven't found one I trust and like yet. * Comments, there are several third-party comment providers that I can use, I tried out Disqus for a while but I didnt like nor trust them. I look at u…

Well, as long as Hugo remains a static site generator, it won't be able to support these features "out of the box". E.g. comments are simply not possible just with HTML + JS, so you'll either have to integrate a third-party service (Disqus, Staticman etc.), or move away from the "static site" concept.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by bovermyer »

Moru wrote: post #6
stiray wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar issues from my side. Cryptic documentation, bad dissorganized forum and configuration,... I love the hugo idea but to find one detail you will get into chaos of strange wording and noise. I am using it but I try to configure as small amount as possible as I always get into some undesired behaviour. It seems like it was from begining build with idea and then continued by patch over patch over patch. Cant recom…

I decided I would make a static site the old fashioned way on neocities.org and happily got started. And then I remembered all the double work you have to do linking and making lists and repeating headers/footers (or use frames) and so on. Now I'm back to looking for some simple script that can output static sites without having to spend a month learning a new tool...

I have a site like that on Tilde Town. It's much smaller than my blogs or other sites, though, so managing links and repeating code is not that big of a deal.

Re: How to start a blog using Hugo

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Post by netsharc »

rwmj wrote: post #24
jelger wrote: post #14

I like the idea of static blogs. However, I didn't accomplish to find a great workflow to use hugo from my android phone while traveling. Using git on a phone is a pain

Yes this is where I got blocked on this too. I like using the WP Android app to upload photos when travelling. Obviously a static site by its very nature cannot interact with a phone app, so this seems like a difficult/intractable problem.

I have the same use case and have been wondering about solutions too. I'm hosting on Netlify, and when I push to my gitlab repository, Netlify's CI fetches, builds and deploys the site. I've wondered if I can run a script somewhere that periodically checks a private Instagram account (so not my main one), and when it sees a new post, it would download the photo and caption, creates a Markdown post and pushes everything into the git repo.
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