Show HN: we built a blog platform in Meteor

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9 points·tmeasday··4 comments

I'm honestly not trying to be dismissive, but why?

I would think that meteor is a terrible choice for a blogging engine. Perhaps for the admin tools it would be great, but a blog's main purpose is to disseminate static content. A technology that generate standard HTML is much more suited to the task rather than dynamically constructing the content with Javascript and data.

Also, can google crawl a site made with Meteor? Would this blogging engine be terrible from an SEO point of view?

Meteor looks pretty cool and the possibilities of creating amazingly dynamic web apps is exciting, but a blog is not very dynamic so it doesn't make much sense to me.

Right tool for the right job and all that.

Meteor does have plugins to make your site SEO friendly. I would assume that they would work with Ground Control as well.

sorry for being cynical ... but , should i be impressed? Blog systems/ CMS are dime a dozen. Can you explain why should I or anyone in fact pay attention to this platform?

the key here is Meteor; sure you can go with Jekyll and a bunch others for Rails and Node, for instance, but there is no blogging platform with momentum for folks who want to customize using their Meteor expertise. Granted it's still a young platform, but it's always good to see early, pioneering efforts like these.

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