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Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by squeakynick »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #125
squeakynick wrote: post #123

I'm embarrassed to say that I still hand write my blog directly in HTML using Notepad++ and manually FTP changes to the hosting company. Most of my blog is static HMTL, with a smidgen of script for analytics or occasional interaction. Every now and then I'll use some light PHP (typically when I need interaction with a database on the server).

Why be embarrassed? If it works it works. And I bet those pages load faster than most other blogs out there.

Try it out; select an article from here ...

http://datagenetics.com/blog.html

Shameless plug :)

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by PuffinBlue »

pdm55 wrote: post #176
PuffinBlue wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually more like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ :-)

Simplicity! I'm in love. Thanks. Actually, your simple design is not the only one to make my day. I have finally found a guy who puts all the HTML5 etc. on the one page. He's a physics lecturer. He has dead easy html files that illustrate Newton's Cannon, using canvas and javascript. Finally, I am "getting" it. See http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/ . (And the bonus was to see that, with uniform circular motio…

Oh this isn't my design, though I do like it!

The guy who made it is: https://twitter.com/drew_mc

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by FiatLuxDave »

dredmorbius wrote: post #78

I've been looking for intelligent conversation online for over 25 years. For a time it was Usenet. I mostly missed the Well, though I caught mailing lists, Slashdot, and for a brief moment, G+ (it's still there, and I've cultivated a useful community, though the reach is small). I've done some exploration of just where intelligent conversation online lies, and frankly was surprised at the results: https://www.reddit.…

Very interesting post. I've also been looking for interesting content online since Usenet days, although my interests are a bit more .sci than .soc.

If you ever do a similar analysis using say, science Nobel Prize Winners or some other similar list, I'd love to see it.

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by ytdht »

verusfossa wrote: post #86

The intimidating thing for me was always how heavy blogging software was. Never really liked the idea of centralized hosting, but hosting some huge PHP blob with a database never felt like it was worth it. I'm hosting my own site now running Hugo and I love it. I agree that most people have moved to centralized hosting, but I'm seeing a resurgence of self-hosting with static site generators like jekyll, middleman or…

I tried to convert my WP to Hugo after seeing your comment, using the WP's export plugin (https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter) but so far my biggest problem is that the link references that were created in the export process don't seem to work properly, for example:

    [Source][1]
    [1]: http://domain.org/dir/
doesn't get converted correctly...

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by verusfossa »

ytdht wrote: post #184
verusfossa wrote: post #86

The intimidating thing for me was always how heavy blogging software was. Never really liked the idea of centralized hosting, but hosting some huge PHP blob with a database never felt like it was worth it. I'm hosting my own site now running Hugo and I love it. I agree that most people have moved to centralized hosting, but I'm seeing a resurgence of self-hosting with static site generators like jekyll, middleman or…

I tried to convert my WP to Hugo after seeing your comment, using the WP's export plugin ( https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter ) but so far my biggest problem is that the link references that were created in the export process don't seem to work properly, for example: [Source][1] [1]: http://domain.org/dir/ doesn't get converted correctly...

I didn't have to do migration, but there are aliases[0] for those who do. Again, I haven't used it so I'm kind of recommending something I haven't touched, but maybe it'll help you out.

[0]https://gohugo.io/extras/aliases/

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by verusfossa »

tehbeard wrote: post #170
verusfossa wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat project, good luck with it. I think I'll stick with Hugo, it's freaky-fast and postcss breaking CSS into an AST makes it really modular. Power moved from js into css which I'm okay with (and browsers are too). As for git. The reason these blogs are so heavy is because editing text files for most people requires a text editor interface on the http which in turn means you need dynamic content whicn in tern means y…

> Email clients already have the text editor users want, why rebuild the wheel? I wouldn't put too much faith in email clients html output being sane, or consistent across clients. You could do it with markdown, but then you're still having to teach them markdown.

That's true, and you're right. Just a shot in the dark. Maybe someday one of the trendier email clients will support markdown rendering natively in their editors.

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by dredmorbius »

FiatLuxDave wrote: post #183
dredmorbius wrote: post #78

I've been looking for intelligent conversation online for over 25 years. For a time it was Usenet. I mostly missed the Well, though I caught mailing lists, Slashdot, and for a brief moment, G+ (it's still there, and I've cultivated a useful community, though the reach is small). I've done some exploration of just where intelligent conversation online lies, and frankly was surprised at the results: https://www.reddit.…

Very interesting post. I've also been looking for interesting content online since Usenet days, although my interests are a bit more .sci than .soc. If you ever do a similar analysis using say, science Nobel Prize Winners or some other similar list, I'd love to see it.

I suspect the patterns would be strongly similar. I've not posted raw data, though they're somewhat in line with the overall trends. A few exceptions -- forums or publications who cater strongly to a specific name. Richard Dawkins is hugely popular, and NY Times is grossly skewed (for obvious reasons) to mentions of Paul Krugman.

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by jtrtoo »

burningion wrote: post #22

It's amazing that the web, which was really originally built primarily as a distributed publishing platform, has gotten so damn complicated to publish to. Right now I've got my own self hosted platform, running Wordpress on a Digital Ocean droplet. The constant security updates for Wordpress are a nightmare, and it seems I have to hack both my theme and my post code every time I want to make a slightly interactive po…

I've been enjoying Craft CMS lately. Almost went static but changed my mind...

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by roghummal »

_yosefk wrote: post #177
lmm wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use github pages for my blog, disqus for comments. Pages is just a convenient place to host - I have my entries in a git repo, the pages are statically generated with Jekyll, I'm sure I could run it myself if github started doing anything onerous. For comments it's just become too hard to self-host anything given how much spam there is, so I've given in and use disqus in the same way that I've stopped self-hosting…

It's pretty easy to hack a comment form so that there's no real heavyweight craptcha but on the other hand a bot will not know to fill it unless your site is specifically targeted. Security by obscurity. Works like a charm for me.

Have you ever had to change your form because a spammer added an exception for you?

Re: Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

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Post by dredmorbius »

FiatLuxDave wrote: post #183
dredmorbius wrote: post #78

I've been looking for intelligent conversation online for over 25 years. For a time it was Usenet. I mostly missed the Well, though I caught mailing lists, Slashdot, and for a brief moment, G+ (it's still there, and I've cultivated a useful community, though the reach is small). I've done some exploration of just where intelligent conversation online lies, and frankly was surprised at the results: https://www.reddit.…

Very interesting post. I've also been looking for interesting content online since Usenet days, although my interests are a bit more .sci than .soc. If you ever do a similar analysis using say, science Nobel Prize Winners or some other similar list, I'd love to see it.

More to the point: the FP Global 100 list was simply a proxy for "what's a list of search tokens that's likely to indicate meaningful conversation?". I picked the FP list as it was available, comprehensive, and Not Mine (that is, I didn't select the names, and disagree fairly markedly with several inclusions).

The individuals named cover a range of backgrounds, from natural and social sciences to politics, religion, and a few authors, artists, and other creatives.

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