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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by corobo on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:23AM (#14889868)
Honestly no real reason other than it's the one I know and didn't want to spend any more time on finding software to write with instead of spending the time on writing

Essentially it was the default option

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by ValentineC on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:13AM (#14891188)
Heh I can empathise. Two of my biggest reasons for wanting to move to a static site generator are actually to have actual control over the content (in markdown files, and because WordPress and its plugins do a fair bit of processing on the raw content), and because I'm more comfortable hacking in languages that aren't PHP.

That seems to have stopped me from writing though.

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by corobo on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:17AM (#14891210)
> more comfortable hacking in languages that aren't PHP

Oddly enough it was the opposite of that for me. Each of the static site generators I looked at were non-PHP (which is fine but I lack the experience)

I tell you what, if someone ever had a gun to my head and said "make this Ruby software work first time without errors" they might as well just pull the trigger

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