Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by anderspitman on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:09PM (#23317008)

Sounds like you just need a way to modify a remote filesystem, then trigger a build step when you're done with the modifications.

Assuming it was wrapped up in a nice UI, would that be missing any features you need?

EDIT: Put more concretely, if you had a site hosted on S3, all you need is a way to modify the source files of that site, either directly or by modifying files in another directory and running a transform step to produce the final result?

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Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by asiachick on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:55AM (#23322438)

For me. Yes, it would be missing features. I have a self hosted blog, the source is on github, there's a trigger on commits.

This sucks compared to wordpress because the UX in wordpress is much better than github and especially because there is no "preview".

There's also no easy way to upload images etc. Certainly not as easy as wordpress.

I'm not going back. I'm just saying "modify the remote file system and trigger a build" is far from what I want.

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Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by anderspitman on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:38AM (#23338556)

Sounds like previews is the main thing missing though? I don't consider github to be similar to a remote filesystem, because like you said certain simple things like uploading images and other arbitrary data isn't easy.

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Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by jedberg on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:14PM (#23317072)

That pretty much sums it up!

It needs to have some sort of awareness of file changes to expire items from the CDN too.

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