Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?
Are there any open source blogging platforms that are a good alternative to Ghost.org? (Besides Wordpress)
Here's an example.
https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i
Themed: https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked
Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way: https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii
For hosting you can try https://netlify.app/ or https://pages.github.com/ .
Both of these provide a free tier.
Example : My website built using Jekyll , hosted on github. https://97amarnathk.github.io/
I used to lose tons of time setting up hugo/jekyll and not writing anything.
Once I move to hashnode I could focus on writing only as most of the things are out of the box.
Most importantly, the content is yours and you can back the data up on github automatically.
The only minor downside is that the images you upload is stored in their CDN. But you can host it yourself if you prefer.
By comparison, flat-file CMS's allow me to edit, search and process my content using whatever tool I like. I can update my blog directly in the terminal, or in Github from work and have the changes pushed out automatically by CI. They're not making hundreds of database calls every time I want a page, so they're blazing fast. I can have simple scripts output to a text file and have it rendered as a status page. And if I want to migrate to another solution, my content is literally a bunch of text files that I can just copy to whatever shiny new thing just caught my eye.
I'm content with Hugo for blogs now.