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Re:Ask HN: What is a good blogging platform for non-developers by wazanator on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:17PM (#13601621)
GitHub and GitLab both have free hosting (with no ads either) through what they called pages and is aimed at showing off projects and blogging.

https://pages.github.com/

https://pages.gitlab.io/

They both use Jekyll(https://jekyllrb.com/) which is quite easy to learn even if you have never done any web dev. http://jekyll.tips/ has some really well made video tutorials on it as well as templates if you're not the artsy type. Adding a new blog entry is as easy as typing it up then doing a git commit and push.

I haven't set one up in GitHub yet but I know GitLab also can do TLS with LetsEncrypt

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good blogging platform for non-developers by jobvandervoort on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:39PM (#13602392)
To add to this, you can use any static website generator with GitLab, here's a simple getting started: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/07/gitlab-pages-setup/

I'm a firm believer that with improving the tools (in my case- GitLab), CMS will become a thing of the past and static pages will be as accessible, yet more powerful, faster and more collaborative.

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