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Ask HN: Bloggers, writers, readers: what's your ideal platform like?

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Could you describe what the ideal blogging experience is for you?

I sometimes wonder how many times people have answers to very small but specific issues and they don't share that information because, 1) might not be worth to write a post about it, 2) laziness (looking at myself), 3) not finding the right format to do it.

So my ideal platform will solve that issue, make it as easy as possible to share this solutions without worrying to much about the format. And, if you want, you could write a full post about it.

Also, should have a browser extension that whenever you search for something in duckduckgo, it will also look in your own data, similar to what evernote have (or used to have) so you just don't save/write something and forget you have it.

I guess, what I'm looking for is a simple note taking "service" not an app, that allow me to share my notes as easy as possible and have git-like capabilities, where you cannot only versioning your notes, but people can contribute to them as well.

PS: No subscription based

So if I'm reading this right somewhere between gist, wiki and medium? Interesting...

Big plus if it can "mind-map" your data and any other data that is public through the service, at the "tag" level or maybe with some deeper understanding of it.

Like, if you start writing an essay on black holes, or doing a kubernetes deployment, it can "suggest" you what other people have done and/or show you how people solve specific issues.

Maybe the idea is to broad and I definitely need to organize my thoughts on this. but yeah, sometimes you don't have to start from scratch nor have the information "fully ready" for you to start leveraging it.

Over the last ~14 months I've been rebuilding my site as a blog. Previously it was a portfolio website on Drupal. These have been the things I've aimed for.

- Quick load times.

- Flexible hosting options

- Something that is not a constant attack target like Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal that I need to keep patching. If I don't have time to work on my side project, this is going to fall by the wayside. It's very frustrating to return and find spam everywhere or get notifications about it.

- Plenty of theme and plugin support.

- Code highlighting

- Something where I can have audience feedback. Similar to the Likes/Reactions that Disqus offers. Currently using Commento which doesn't offer that.

So far I've been using and quite liking Github Pages which is based on Jekyll. I've got a staging site setup on Amazon S3 which loads incredibly quick since it's all static files. Github hosted main site loads almost as quick. My main gripe is it's somewhat frustrating/fiddly when trying to embed lots of images as the workflow for this is manual.

I've heard Hugo is good.

My ideal platform that I would look for next time looks like:

- CMS content management and creation like Wordpress

- Static site generated output which:

  - is Easy to host anywhere

  - Incurs zero time waiting for DB queries/server operations

- Plenty of plugins and themes available

- Easy integration of third party hosted comment section

edit: sorry, learning formatting on HN still.

like https://epiphany.pub/

With version control and programmability

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