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Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?

Both Hugo and mkdocs appear to receive more updates than Jekyll these days. I was in the same situation as the author and decided for mkdocs, because it features better syntax highlighting and customization than hugo. I find it also better to read for long documentation-like posts (have a look du.nkel.dev). There are less themes available compared to Hugo, but those that exist feel more powerful and complete.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?

Both Hugo and mkdocs appear to receive more updates than Jekyll these days. I was in the same situation as the author and decided for mkdocs, because it features better syntax highlighting and customization than hugo. I find it also better to read for long documentation-like posts (have a look du.nkel.dev). There are less themes available compared to Hugo, but those that exist feel more powerful and complete.

(author here) yes, the lack of updates is concerning. Interesting, I will check mkdocs out!

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?

Last time I was evaluating static site generators, Dimples and Nanoc both stood out for this recent-updates reason, among other personal criteria.

https://github.com/waferbaby/dimples

https://nanoc.ws/

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?

Are updates needed?

They might be. I tried running it locally with the latest ruby LTS and ran into errors. It only worked with Ruby 2.7.

However, what isn't clear is if we need to discard the whole project and go to another one or just help the maintainers. I will see if I can help.

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