> I'm ALWAYS looking for a more simple blogging solution.
Why?
Why?
I was on WordPress. Now I’m on Jekyll. I occasionally think of changing the theme, then I remember how little that will benefit me or my few readers.
I'm on Hugo now, and have used both self-hosted and .com (free) versions of Wordpress. Which of the 3 do you think I wrote the most when I was in it?
Yeah, free wordpress is limited, if not open-source, blah-blah-blah. But it's a few clicks to create, easy to write the posts/have drafts/change theme. And I would argue that having limited themes on free can actually be a positive thing. You have a few options, chose something and start writing.
Having to write in any other editor (to have grammar checking), then paste on VS Code, deploy... it just takes more time. And this is without managing any media, which I just upload to imgur and use the link...
I'm always on the hunt because I haven't found the perfect solution to replace it yet. I'm convinced it's either plain text (including Markdown) or plain html, but I am not sure I've found the perfect solution.
Today I'm using Markdown hosted on GitHub, but who knows how long I'll use GitHub or if GitLab or BitBucket will work as replacements in the same way.
It's easy to say, "stick with it", but technology changes a lot as the decades begin to pass by.