Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr"
Hey everyone,
For the past few weeks I've been working on a new lightweight blog engine powered by Codeigniter called "embr". I've stuck the source on Github and would love to hear any feedback or new features to add.
Features:
- Basic image and text posts
- Tag & Category support
- Disqus commenting
- Infinite-scrolling on index pages
- Tumblr style "reblog" is nearly complete (which will allow reflagging of posts across self hosted domains)
Check out the source on Github: https://github.com/laurencedawson/embr
The live demo can be viewed here (username: [email protected] pass: qwerty) http://blog.laurencedawson.com
Thanks
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I like Tumblr but the data lock-in + shoddy uptime scared me, and this uses CodeIgniter—something I’m familiar with—so I’d probably have an easier time hacking on it than even jekyll!
In your opinion, what would make someone use this over setting up a hosted Tumblr?
Once its all setup I'd like to think being distributed and having full control over your data would be a strong selling point. No more "tumblr is over capacity" messages.
Does the software handle SEO which would be a selling point for me when considering a blogging platform
It's fast, by default everything is cached which I think helps with SEO. Also it generates meta + opengraph tags for each post, hyphens instead of underscores in URLs etc. Not sure what else to add, any suggestions?