Looks great. I also found blogging options to not be great. Analytics is a must have though
Why I created Banner Blog
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#12Can it be self-hosted?
Is it open-source?
Is the WYSIWYG editor custom-built, or does it use CKEditor or similar projects?
What about media management?
Is there a place for a simple CMS? E.g. developers usually prefer simple static site generators, such as Eleventy.
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#13> SEO Optimized Out Of The Box To me this is a bug, not a feature. Google is so broken now that I assume any website in their first page of results is likely worthless.
I feel like the new kinda-alternative on the rise is to support federation with either ActivityPub, BlueSky/ATProto or both.
That is, instead of going for search engines, go for open social. It’s obviously a new and relatively unpopular ecosystem, but makes much more sense than this SEO stuff IMO.
Wordpress have rolled out their AP support and it seems to be working well so far. I just “replied” to a blog post on mastodon today without even realising it was from a blog.
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#14> SEO Optimized Out Of The Box To me this is a bug, not a feature. Google is so broken now that I assume any website in their first page of results is likely worthless.
I feel like the new kinda-alternative on the rise is to support federation with either ActivityPub, BlueSky/ATProto or both. That is, instead of going for search engines, go for open social. It’s obviously a new and relatively unpopular ecosystem, but makes much more sense than this SEO stuff IMO. Wordpress have rolled out their AP support and it seems to be working well so far. I just “replied” to a blog post on mas…
Yeh definitely agree. Banner blog has support for basic link sharing on social media, but something to look more into definitely!
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#15Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
Still more complicated than updating my .plan file via FTP.
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#16Looks great. I also found blogging options to not be great. Analytics is a must have though
Thanks! Totally agree about needing some privacy-first analytics on it.
Wanted to get a great writing experience finished first, but it’s the next thing on my list
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#17Honest feedback: I’m on mobile and the experience isn’t good. Is that something that’s being addressed?
Yeh, that’s the next thing on the list. Wanted to get something out the door for desktop, then it’s on to mobile. Any things in particular that you’d want fixing?
I would say the margins and the font size are too large.
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#18> SEO Optimized Out Of The Box To me this is a bug, not a feature. Google is so broken now that I assume any website in their first page of results is likely worthless.
Same for me, too. I honestly love https://mataroa.blog it ended my paralysis for searching a blog platform, and every page is bog standard HTML. It accepts Markdown, plus it has its own anonymous analytics, so it's nice. On the other hand, everyone has different needs, and I wish Banner blog the best of luck!
Thanks! Glad to hear there are other platforms out there.
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#19The page has some weird horizontal scrolling going on.
I think it's because the body style has both `width: 100%` and a nonzero margin. You should probably set margin and padding to zero on the body tag if you need width, or just remove the `width: 100%` (which I don't think you need?)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeh, that’s the next thing on the list. Wanted to get something out the door for desktop, then it’s on to mobile. Any things in particular that you’d want fixing?
I would say the margins and the font size are too large.
Great thanks, will have a look into that