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Ask HN:Do we need another blogging engine?

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I just needed to ask this question since I'm researching for a blog engine that suits me well :) Here is my requirements ,

* Simple to create blog post

* Need to be speed when saving posts and loading

* I love to use Markdown, HTML, images, videos and that needs to be simplified

* Simple nice looking themes

* Adding multiple pages for the blog post

In order to show this, I just created this and you can try using: http://dokeeno.com/login Some of the written blogs can be found here: http://dokeeno.com/u/blog

Would love to here from you?

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Personally, I liked it because of the refreshing UI. I think a lot of blogs are very hard to navigate (especially when the blog posts are listed by month on the side, or have previous/next buttons, but theres no easy way to just view a complete list at once or search through posts), this wasn't. The idea of multiple pages in a single blog post was awesome! I didn't try creating a blog myself, but if you can make it as easy to create blogs as it is on other sites while providing the UI/multiple pages, I think you have an advantage.

That said, it's also a very easy idea to replicate. Perhaps you need to identify the people who would be willing to use this a little better and offer a few more advanced features targeted towards them. I see this product as filling a nice somewhere between a full-blown CMS like Joomla and a simple blogging engine, and understanding what the users of that niche want will help.

Thanks for your suggestions. I hope looking for a niche is the good thing and this is easy to replicate.

I'm looking for the niche of create Online Documentations for the products. This suits well for them. And If I would be able to create a online dashboard of blogs by categories. This will be awesome product for create Documentations.

I'd suggest you try to imagine what your /u/blog page(s) look like 1-2 years from now. I think that, with only four blog posts, that page looks nice and clean. In a year, how many posts will you have though? How will users who are brand new to you/your blog accept it if it's just a scrolling/paginated page of 150 links? How will you handle tags/categories/timelines?

Sparse implementation/design is a nice thing but you don't want to be at the two year mark and think, "This sucks. My blog has become everything that I didn't want it to be" all because you tried for clean and nice.

Yes, what you are correct. It's not good to scroll and see 150 pages.

I still haven't look at handling tags/categories/timelines. These are some pretty standard so I think I should also need to follow this. With this I can add filtering in the /u/blog.

currently /u/blog is the only delivery point. But I would like to add more delivery points where people can easily transform this into a HelpDesk, Tutorial Section ....

Looks cool. One thing you might want to fix: most of the links on the upper right of login page (FAQ, Contact, etc.) are not clickable. If you don't have that content yet, I'd just remove the placeholders.

Yes. That should be. I've removed that. Thank you.

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