Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric blogging platforms?

Posted by zevir on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have lots of written content organized under main categories and tags (multiple tags per category). Im looking for a simple site builder/template that allows me to present this in a clean, minimalist but functional way without all the fancy bells and whistles that the mainstream site builders promote.

Any help would be very much appreciated!!!

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by altilunium on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:34AM (#33718388)

For me, bearblog & prose.sh.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by pyb on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:09AM (#33718697)

Jekyll with Minimal Mistakes theme : https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by abudabi123 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:20AM (#33718782)

Emacs Org Mode or Texinfo.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by ksec on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:38AM (#33719628)

https://nicheless.blog

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by vkdelta on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:41AM (#33720556)

Hugo

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by CrypticShift on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:28PM (#33723476)

Permanence is my concern with the indie blog hosting services mentioned here (bearblog, prose.sh, nicheless.blog)

Also, because you already have a lot of the content, maybe you don't need a blog? what about a "digital garden" ?

What is a digital garden? -> https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Tools (easy options included) -> https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

If you have your content in a note-taking app like obsidian, there is even simple tutorials on how to freely publish it with all those precious "multiple tags per category", all in one go.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by infamouscow on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:56PM (#33723766)

https://writefreely.org

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by uaas on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:57PM (#33723778)

Something like this Hugo theme maybe: https://github.com/LukasJoswiak/etch?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by ipnon on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:31PM (#33724145)

You can’t beat hosting a plain HTML file on a static server here. You already have directory support with hyperlinks, and there is no Web technology today that will have more persistence when it comes to a template API. It’s as close as you can get to Just Works on the Internet.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by runjake on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:44PM (#33724299)

A lot of people seem to like https://bearblog.dev/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by lovvtide on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:38AM (#33728382)

If you're looking for a content management system that you can host yourself it might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you should check out Satellite, a blogging platform that I've been building the last couple years. I've just deployed a major upgrade recently and to be honest am super happy that it seems to be getting a bit of traction.

https://satellite.earth

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric bloggi... by MyreyDebi on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:23AM (#33733086)

Bearblog and Hugo

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