I've had managed wordpress hosting from about £5, not sure where he got those prices from.
Still not sure I'd recommend it, the community can be pretty toxic.
How to Start Your Blog in 2023
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Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#102For the combination of Hugo and GitHub Pages, images are pretty effortless as well. For example, for a post with a path of `content/posts/post-title.md`: 1. Add the image at `content/posts/post-title/image-name.png` 2. Add markdown that references it, like `` 3. Build and push to main, and then the image is available in minutes at ` /posts/post-title/image-name.png" rel="nofollow">https://…
Is Hugo significantly different from Jekyll?
Hugo is distributed as a single binary, but Jekyll requires a Ruby environment (assuming you want to test locally).
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#103Do any of these platforms provide additional discoverability? I occasionally publish articles, usually of the technical "how-to" variety with a focus on areas that aren't already widely documented. To date I have published these on Medium because if you publish via an established publication like Towards Data Science your articles can get decent reach without much effort. I'd ideally like to move away from Medium but…
That's not necessarily true. I have had success in the past with certain specific articles ranking high on google because there wasn't anything that went into that much detail about a more focused topic. E.g. AWS Cognito. In fact, you could probably document almost anything technical about AWS and get a lot of traffic since their documentation (or lack thereof) is so bad.
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#104Do any of these platforms provide additional discoverability? I occasionally publish articles, usually of the technical "how-to" variety with a focus on areas that aren't already widely documented. To date I have published these on Medium because if you publish via an established publication like Towards Data Science your articles can get decent reach without much effort. I'd ideally like to move away from Medium but…
Wordpress has an activitypub plugin to integrate with mastodon. There are others to automatically post to twitter/fb etc but those are usually paid.
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#1051. What you use or wherever you host, make sure that you can export your content in either plain text or a universal format that can be used by another tool or host it yourself. In short, own the content and use whatever tool it fits your current situations and limitations. 2. Possibly, try to get a domain of your own, and preferably a `.com`. Point that to whichever server you use (if they don't allow you to point,…
There's so many better options better than .com (commercial)
.net .org .me .io .blog .info
You can make it topical too .expert .engineer .doctor .camera .software
Or have fun with it .lol .wtf .foo
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#106I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL.
I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds.
After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS feed in raw XML in a text editor. It's not pretty, but it's zero maintenance. I've been doing that for 10 years now, and I don't think I'd ever go back to a third-party dependency.
I should mention my other motivation: occasionally one of my blog posts will get massive traffic, such as #1 HN, or getting linked by the tech media. In cases like these, static HTML files are great. My website never gets overwhelmed and becomes unresponsive from the load, even though it's just on a little shared hosted server.
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#107I ran into the exact same issues as the author of this post the other day. I have a static site built on Hugo that I (amateurishly) set up a year or so ago, and would like it to have better support for photos & galleries, but lack the time + skill to implement that.
I spent a late-night research session a few weeks back running through many of the main options they mention only to settle on the conclusion that there wasn't something that had the compromise of features, simplicity, and price that I was looking for.
I didn't check out write.as when I was looking into things though, so maybe that'll be my next failed experiment.
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#108Happy user [0] of Bear Blog [1], would recommend.
I would also recommend spending less than 30 minutes setting up a blog if you have less than 4 posts written. [2]
[0]: https://thrice.me/
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#109A lot of expected pessimistic HN comments that seem to miss the point here. I think SSG's are pretty damn good, I use Astro. People seem to think that SSG's forces you to use markdown or something, they don't. It's literally a mechanism where content from somewhere is turned into static pages. You can even use Wordpress and it's API as the source of the content for a SSG. In my case I use MDX, which is Markdown that…
Is there a way for SSGs to support viewer comments?
I’m a fan of Isso: https://isso-comments.de/
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people (including me) use static generation with a fancy build process because we find it fun, not to save time or money. I honestly find it more fun to setup my blog than writing content for it... Which might be a problem. (And also explain all the blog posts describing a complex setup).
> Many people (including me) use static generation with a fancy build process because we find it fun, not to save time or money. Some people do this and won't admit it!
Very true and good point— and there’s also nothing at all wrong with that!!