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Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by pwmanagerdied »

flooha wrote: post #11
csmeder wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just created a posterous account. Is it possible to add photos to a post after its been posted? I can see it gives you text editing, but no way of uploading photos? Do you get to decide where the photos fall in-line with the text?

I don't know if you can do that with posterous or not, but I know WordPress is used for a lot of sites whose content relies heavily on images. peopleofwalmart.com would be a example.

It's also coded like shit and has security issues constantly. Anyone who uses wordpress on a site a hacker's spider might find is asking for trouble.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by diN0bot »

samstokes wrote: post #8

I faced the same question a few days ago. I went for Tumblr in the end, mostly because of the polished feel both of the website and of individual Tumblr blogs, the low barrier to entry, and theme customisability. I've quite liked how little I've had to change to get a basic blog working how I want it (decent look and feel, Twitter feed integrated, etc). Only nasty surprise since has been that the Tumblr founders "don…

the not-native comments for tumblr surprised me, too. i don't like the disqus solution, though i think anonymous comments are still possible.

i don't like the design of tumblr themes, but that's obviously personal. i guess i'm more of a word-blogger, and thus my attachment to wordpress.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by aw3c2 »

diN0bot wrote: post #16

http://wordpress.com it just works. for everything. i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress. edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress.

security, bloat, ugly code, annoyingly frequent updates.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by carterschonwald »

qhoxie wrote: post #2

For well-polished basics, I don't think you can do any better than posterous.

one slight turn off to posterous is that there seems to be no nice way to embed math in the same style as wordpress's latex integration. Is there such a way already or forthcoming?

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by sachinag »

maxklein wrote: post #25

Posterous sucks because you cannot insert images where you want and you have to go through a separate interface to get your images in it. Posted one article on posterous, and don't want to post more.

If you use your e-mail program as your post editor (I use Gmail web interface), you can make it work by throwing ((nogallery)) into your title. See my recent posts for how it works: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/

Disclosure: I'm not the Sachin Agarwal that co-founded Posterous, although he's threatened to hijack my domain and redirect it to his blog. (He's kidding. Sort of. I will stab him if he does.) Because of my name, however, I get random support e-mails and have gotten pretty decent at tech support. Also, the Help section is actually rather well documented if you know what you're looking for.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by unalone »

trimski wrote: post #3

Tumblr has post-by-email and customizable themes. http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr Soup.io is another tumblelog platform that makes it dead simple to reblog (literally one click). http://soup.io

Tumblr is the most polished blogging platform out there. It also has built-in audience controls, meaning if you write good things, news will spread.

Posterous has an excellent feature set, but it's uglier than balls. Bad typography, bad colors, generally washed-out. If you're okay with not looking beautiful, though, it might be a better from-the-get-go choice than Tumblr. I've tried and given up on it myself.

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by unalone »

diN0bot wrote: post #22
samstokes wrote: post #8

I faced the same question a few days ago. I went for Tumblr in the end, mostly because of the polished feel both of the website and of individual Tumblr blogs, the low barrier to entry, and theme customisability. I've quite liked how little I've had to change to get a basic blog working how I want it (decent look and feel, Twitter feed integrated, etc). Only nasty surprise since has been that the Tumblr founders "don…

the not-native comments for tumblr surprised me, too. i don't like the disqus solution, though i think anonymous comments are still possible. i don't like the design of tumblr themes, but that's obviously personal. i guess i'm more of a word-blogger, and thus my attachment to wordpress.

Why bother with comments? All they do is add noise. I like Tumblr's approach with their Likes and Reblogs: It adds a trackable story to each of your posts.

I'm a Tumblr theme designer. Would it be whoring to point you to one of my creations? I made this one specifically for people who want to write in longform; I've seen it used on a few hundred blogs now and it does a very nice job.

http://www.tumblr.com/theme/3164

Alternatively, if you want a very minimal solution, here's a stripped-down one I made, though it's got a quirk or two I ought to get around to fixing.

http://www.tumblr.com/theme/230

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by slig »

aw3c2 wrote: post #23
diN0bot wrote: post #16

http://wordpress.com it just works. for everything. i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress. edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress.

security, bloat, ugly code, annoyingly frequent updates.

He pointed out to the hosted version of wordpress (.com)

Re: Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?

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Post by unalone »

diN0bot wrote: post #16

http://wordpress.com it just works. for everything. i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress. edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress.

Here's my big Wordpress problem: It adds too much shit to a default install.

Sidebar? Archives? Tag lists? Blogroll? Datestamping? Comment numbers? When I install Wordpress I immediately have to go in and remove everything. It gives me so goddamn much to work with. Its themes are overall too bloated for my taste.

It's a good solution blogging-wise, but I wish they would make it easier to get rid of all the junk.

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