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Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#42
post #41

Looks really polished and I love the minimalist design. One thing I've been wondering that a lot of web platforms offer: how do you allow users to bring their custom domain with TLS? What's the tech behind that and how does the process work?

Just letsencrypt, I guess.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#45
post #41

Looks really polished and I love the minimalist design. One thing I've been wondering that a lot of web platforms offer: how do you allow users to bring their custom domain with TLS? What's the tech behind that and how does the process work?

That was one of the hard things to figure out how to do in a simple way on mataroa. Just using Let's Encrypt directly was the first iteration. Now mataroa is using a combination of:

- Let's Encrypt with a wildcard certificate for mataroa.blog and all *.mataroa.blog domains

- Caddy's automated certificates for all user custom domains

You can see a few more details about this setup in the server playbook doc [1] and the Caddyfile [2]

[1]: https://github.com/sirodoht/mataroa/blob/master/docs/server-...

[2]: https://github.com/sirodoht/mataroa/blob/master/Caddyfile

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#48
One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers.

I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#49
post #44

I would like to try writing a post before signing up, or at least see what the import/export looks like I want to see if source code snippets, SVG, LaTeX, etc. works Same issue with bearblog.dev. They show you example rendered posts but not the example source

Good points.

For the post source, it's just simple text markdown. SVG and LaTeX do not work. Most custom HTML and CSS does not work.

The allowed HTML elements/attributes and CSS rules that work are these: https://github.com/sirodoht/mataroa/blob/2d1524e1f3ba968efcb...

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#50
post #44

I would like to try writing a post before signing up, or at least see what the import/export looks like I want to see if source code snippets, SVG, LaTeX, etc. works Same issue with bearblog.dev. They show you example rendered posts but not the example source

Could you sign up using a mailinator.com account just to kick the tires?
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