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Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?

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I would like to know what platform are you using for blogging at this moment. I'm trying to decide which one to use! At the moment I can't afford to host my own blog.

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Ok. Making a resume: If you're a ruby-mentality guy and have some money for hosting then check these out (in no specific order):

Enki - https://github.com/xaviershay/enki Toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto Jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com Nanoc - http://nanoc.stoneship.org Timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless

Otherwise... Just use Posterous. :P

I have 3 nanoc ( http://nanoc.stoneship.org ) blogs: http://frozenlabs.com/blog , http://deadsunrise.net and http://vivirdescalzo.com

deadsunrise.net started as a sinatra app, then wordpress, now nanoc with markdown or haml. Nanoc is cool and they are static pages so you can host them anywhere.

I've been using wordpress on http://puremango.co.uk for a year and a half with no major complaints. It's easy to set up and modify which is a big plus.

edit: Oh, and I also use it on http://sciencewallpaper.com and http://geekwallpapers.com

I'm using Tumblr for my personal blog, have been for years, but am starting to become very unhappy with their stability problems. I'm using Wordpress (self hosted and Wordpress.com) for a number of other sites and I'm very happy with it. There's loads of themes and plugins for Wordpress, many of which are free, and it's fairly easy to customise.

Thanks for your comment. I have to say I am a bit hurt by Wordpress UX and (no flamewar intended) its PHPness. I think I am going for Posterous. If I could host my own blog there are three interesting options I would ponder: toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless

BlogEngine.NET running on DiscountASP.NET - I had used WordPress for three years and wanted to try something else.

WordPress is still the best platform all-around, but I think it's easier to extend BlogEngine.NET.

Oh forgot to tell you that I'm on a Mac... Even with Mono I prefer to stay native.

I use Blogger. It has customizable CSS, lets you use custom domains, and scaling is never a worry. All for free. I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would pay for blogging software or hosting.

I'm using Posterous for my company blog and Blogger for my personal blogs. I'm happy with both of them.

I've used wordpress and livejournal in the past but wouldn't really use them for a new blog.

After all I'm using posterous! Here it is: http://mindimension.posterous.com

Good old Posterous. I have 2 blogs in there and I love it.

toto!

http://cloudhead.io/toto

I know toto (and jekyll as well) but as I told you I can't afford hosting... And Heroku's network performance is really not good at this time (at least for Lisbon, Portugal, Europe with a 100MB Fiber Up-Down Link).

You could just use Posterous.

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