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Comment by sam_ezeh | Hacker News Reader

I think this idea is really cool, I just don't see myself using this due to the alternatives (GitHub pages, static blog generators etc.)

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I've done all the static site generators, I just don't post enough to justify the maintenance, if you do they're probably a better solution! As is, it's pretty basic but I want to add features that GitHub pages don't support

Creating a GitHub repo with one file titled “index.md” and publishing it to GitHub Pages creates a single-page site using relatively sane defaults. There's no maintenance involved whatsoever. You can add multiple pages as well by creating new .md files and publishing them.

Do the new pages/posts automatically populate on the front/home page? Guessing yes via some kind of basic Jekyll template?

Try telling my mom to do that or my friend who is a landscaper. Not everyone is technical. GitHub pages are also tied to your account.

> GitHub pages are also tied to your account.

No, GitHub pages are tied to "an" account. It can be a secondary "anonymous" account. You can create an anonymous bear blog or one of the other million free writing and zero maintenance tools. It's certainly more anonymous than having to disclose your real identity via a credit card on a random person's page.

Also, what sort of content do you hope that your target audience (Bob the landscaper who is non technical but has a super urgent desire to send a message to the world in an anonymous way) will publish?

Yeah but would I tell my mom to pay a dollar on this site? Would she trust it? Does she need a website or does an email/google doc satisfy her needs. What are the use cases for entirely anonymous sites that you have in mind?

Care to tell what features GitHub pages are missing?

GitHub Pages have the unfortunate anti-feature of being impossible for normal people.

Anonymity. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it was only markdown which isn't ideal especially for no technical people.

Last time I tried, there is no verification other than and email link for Github accounts. I think you could make an account and publish with just a throwaway email.

Yeah, honestly there are similar things and other things that do this better if your goal is to just run a blog. This was a simple project I figured I could finish in two weeks and refresh some skills along the way while using some new libraries and technologies.

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