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Was this software once popular in a particular niche? I can see recently had an update, but I'm not clear what market it is appealing to since the readme explicitly states that documentation is sparse.

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I googled and found this:

> Over the 23 year history of mod_blog, I've given up on the notion of anyone other than me using it. There was only one other person who used it for just a few months before deciding blogging wasn't for him and that was way back in 2002. So it was completely by surprise that I recently received a bug report on it.

That was written a year ago.

Source: https://boston.conman.org/2023/01/19.1

These paths we take in life for the love or debugging our own code. I mean, I've been building websites with a phenomenally feature-rich system I started rolling myself around 2002 and have rewritten twice since then.(including a blogging module, shopping module, custom form+validation language, themes, and lots of stuff you actually can't get from WordPress like hierarchical inline editing for downstream users). I can build a new desktop+mobile site for a business with it in a couple hours. But no one else has ever even seen the code, let alone used it. The entire rationale for bugfixing and using it again every time has been that I don't want to be at the mercy of WP or anything else.

[mine is just in PHP and TS, though. OP's choice to do it in c++ is on an entirely different level; I'm good at flipping burgers, that person is a master chef].

I wrote my own blogging engine back in 2015. I am fairly certain I'm the only user. I actively use it to maintain two small websites.

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What's it written in?

Python/Flask on the server, and javascript in the browser (if requested) to do markdown->html conversion client-side

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