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Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

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As the creator of specter puts it, specter is:

- A pleasant writing environment - A system that can be configured and deployed in minutes - Customization that is limited only by your imagination. - Power of node and elastic search in your blog.

Be sure to give it a try!

Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform
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Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor?

Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing more. I definitely have some trouble finishing the posts that I start, but I get the distinct impression that using one of these would be akin to getting a gym membership: if I'm not finishing blog posts now I won't magically start finishing blog posts just because of this new tool.

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Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…

I think it's the new todo list.

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Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…

Well, it's up to you to use your own gym membership. If you sign up and don't use your membership, that is ultimately your problem. These new blogging platforms are like different gyms you can sign up for. Whether you exercise or not, at least do it at a gym you like.

I think it's nice to see a variety of self-made blogging platforms come around. Not only do we bloggers get our pick of the litter but it shows how some languages/frameworks work in creating something conventional like a blog. I agree that is seems to have become some sort of rite of passage.

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Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…

Writing a blog engine has been the "hello world" for new languages / web frameworks for a while.

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Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing m…

I realise you're being snarky, but of course it is. Do what makes you happy. For an increasing (but numerically very small) amount of people, building their own service is what makes them happy.

In terms of awesome features - well yes. There are tons and tons and tons that are available from pages dynamically generated by a server-side program that would be a real pain to produce on manually updating HTML pages.

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I am asking, in a not snarky but genuinely curious way, what are the advantages of any of these platforms over wordpress?

The most important one to me is not using PHP (THEshittiest programming language ever) and being built upon NodeJS. Also, look at my answer below about the security aspect of it.
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