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I've taken a different approach to solve this problem (http://substancehq.com/). It uses mustache but does the rendering on the server side. My aim is to make it a lot better thank jekyll, because in my experience, jekyll doesn't have the best feedback cycle for editing → publishing. Sure, you can use the editor you like to write the blog posts, but, polishing them after publishing is a realy pain. Would love to hear feedback about it :) http://substancehq.com/

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> Jekyll is an awesome framework, But, we think it's not right for blogs for a number of reasons. Also, we think that the git push → deploy dance, is a bit too much when you want to make minor edits.

You realize this "dance" is solved by a simple post-receive hook right? For example:

  git clone ${GIT_REPO} ${TMP}                                                                                               
  ${HOME}/gems/bin/jekyll --safe --no-auto ${TMP} ${PUBLIC_WWW}                                 
  rm -rf ${TMP}

Any time you push to that repo, it builds and deploys the new site automatically.

Yes, a simple post-receive hook will do the regeneration, but when you have a lot of small edits (I usually do this when I finish off my blog posts), the time to commit, push and wait for the site to be regenerated is kind of frustrating.

I've used jekyll for the past 2 years and have blogged quite a bit about it (https://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8... ) I think it is an awesome framework, in how it really gets out of your way. And that is what I am trying to accomplish with my design, getting out of the users way and allowing him to just write content. Would love to hear any other feedback you guys might have.

Did not see link to source code on home page. Is this closed source?

If no, where to download code to play with?

It's really a hosted app, which I am planning to have a very low price for. You can create a new blog, just by typing a name in the big text box on the home page, you don't need anything else to try it out :)

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