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Blogless – Writing articles online without a blog (2021)

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> Blogless generates static HTML pages and lets you manage them from a simple to handle online interface. New articles can be written and changed online, then shared with your friends or customers via Facebook, Google+, Twitter, WhatsApp, .... Or just use the optional commenting with Disqus.

This sounds like a static site generator. They're great, but there are a lot of them, and most will do what's in the "How is it different?" section. What's the unique proposition here?

> This sounds like a static site generator.

This is a static site generator running inside a web application. It is the worse of both worlds: You need to maintain a server and yet you can't make use of the server to do interesting thing.

I think they might be arguing for like, the death of a blog as a personal branding center. Site generators (or even like, better-formatted Pastebin alternatives like Rentry) emphasize "publishing for the utility" instead of it having to be attached to a personal brand, community, etc etc.

Don’t you get it?! It’s blogless!

This is blogless to blogs much like serverless is to servers: it's still a blog/server no matter what you want to call it. Tell me the specific features a blog has that "Blogless" doesn't have, and why it's an anti-blog, otherwise the features on that page sound just like a blog to me!

It is just like a blog because it is a blog. Everything else seems just an attempt to cleverly market the project.

I created the Neat CSS framework in the same spirit. It's so minimalist that there's no publishing system; you just grab the CSS file and write HTML. I use it for all kinds of sites, including the occasional blog.

https://neat.joeldare.com

Thanks for coming forward.

JavaScript-free?

Well, of course. What the hell do you need JavaScript for?!?! :P

It's a blog, but it's not a blog. It has no features except the features it has. It's just for you, but you can publish it online.

This idea is full of logical inconsistencies and strikes me as being from someone who has an uncomfortable relationship with technology, writing and social relationships.

If you want a blog, have a blog. If you want to write for yourself, use Apple Notes or Obsidian or Word.

So it's just a static site generator for blogs....?

I kind of expected this to be a blog writing / management framework that blasts whatever you write to Medium, Substack, Twitter thread, Linkedin, etc., but doesn't have a central webpage. Would be kind of cool to have the same posts appear in many places, and be easy to edit ALL the posts from one central place.

I felt sure that this was sarcastic a joke. Esp after reading the webpage. From reading comments, it appears that it is not. I think it ought to be.

Just another blogging platform, no?

I think hey.com/world is a good example of eliminating the distraction of usual blogs, but they even call it blog..

https://www.hey.com/world/

Hoooly crap who on this planet would pay $100/yr for this?!

Sorry, not the most constructive response, but my goodness everything is a SaaS platform these days...

You pay $100/yr for the email service. The blogging part is free.

I know this is just me being pedantic but the blog part is not free. You pay 100/year to get both an email and a blog. You can't get the blog without paying.

svbtle costs $7 per month and $75 per year. And it has stayed in business for years. I use an SSG and host my blog on vercel for free but for someone who don't want to deal with software and don't want the surveillance of a social blogging platform, hey.com and svbtle are good solutions.

It’s a good reminder that price is representative of value to others, not just me!

That's a clever implementation by hey. Isn't this what posterous was all about?

Highly desirable hey.com address. Really? By who?

Similar concept : https://md.altilunium.my.id

Like it. But what is the license?

https://blogless.datenbrei.de/license/ MIT + a TinyMCE dependency.

If you need to add forms to your static website you can use fabform .io

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