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Where should I start a new blog?

9 years ago from

I don't want anything as heavy as Wordpress. Tumblr, Medium, Svbtle..? Thank you.

25 comments

  • Benjamin FritzBenjamin Fritz, 9 years ago

    Jekyll.

    4 points
    • Tierney CyrenTierney Cyren, 9 years ago

      Jekyll is good. Ghost is also good--it's completely focused on blogging. Also maybe a static site generator (is Jekyll one of these?) like Wintersmith or Middleman.

      2 points
      • Eli MellenEli Mellen, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )

        Jekyll is a static site generator. I use it and Frank for most of my work. I love them both. Jekyll is more geared towards blogging.

        I think it is important to consider your intentions with a blog: do you care about exposure? A community driven service like Medium or Tumblr will offer some inbuilt exposure. Do you want comments? Is your content gonna follow a theme?

        0 points
    • Jim SilvermanJim Silverman, 9 years ago

      99% sure he's looking for a hosted solution.

      1 point
  • Reuben IngberReuben Ingber, 9 years ago

    Roon.io

    3 points
  • Justin RuckmanJustin Ruckman, 9 years ago

    What kind of stuff do you want to blog about?

    1 point
  • Matt SharpeMatt Sharpe, 9 years ago

    I'm going with a custom Tumblr blog

    1 point
  • Damian SowersDamian Sowers, 9 years ago

    You could check out Silvrback. Just launched 2.0 yesterday. https://dsowers.silvrback.com/welcome-to-silvrback-2

    1 point
    • Hmphry xHmphry x, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )

      That kind of looks like a mash up of svbtle and medium.

      2 points
    • Artem TitoulenkoArtem Titoulenko, 9 years ago

      Pretty much a blatant Medium ripoff. Not even using it as inspiration, just raw copy + paste

      5 points
      • Damian SowersDamian Sowers, 9 years ago

        It's nothing close to a medium ripoff. The amount of time I spent on the UI is mind boggling. It's distasteful to be so disrespectful to other people's hard work.

        2 points
  • Updula LeeUpdula Lee, 9 years ago

    Roon: https://roon.io

    0 points
  • Anthony QuinonesAnthony Quinones, 9 years ago

    Very new service pre MVP http://www.nikktto-staging.com/tiers should solve your problems and more

    0 points
  • Marc BodmerMarc Bodmer, 9 years ago

    I would use a combination of two platforms. My ideal setup would be Medium + Ghost or Jekyll. This will allow your posts to be more discoverable with a community like Medium, but at the same time you have more control over a self-hosted solution such as Ghost or Jekyll.

    0 points
  • Afnizar Nur Ghifari, 9 years ago

    Ghost.

    0 points
  • William HutterWilliam Hutter, 9 years ago

    Ghost is pretty good and the roadmap is promising. Like they say, "it's just for blogging".

    0 points
  • Josh ClementJosh Clement, 9 years ago

    Tumblr has been good for 7+ years for me, it's pretty simple to use. Medium is nice, but i think it's still too new.

    0 points
    • Artem TitoulenkoArtem Titoulenko, 9 years ago

      Too new? What does that even mean? Do you carry a new phone around for 2 years before you turn it on?

      0 points
      • Josh ClementJosh Clement, 9 years ago

        could lose its relevance, and its audience - you're better off banking on your own url and building up your blog yourself.

        0 points
  • Amjad AliAmjad Ali, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )

    Octopress. Just write posts in markdown and jekyll generates the html.

    You can host a static blog/site for free on Github and take advantage of their uptime, CDN, etc.

    0 points
  • Murat MutluMurat Mutlu, 9 years ago

    Check out Scriptogram, takes text files hosted on Dropbox and Turns them into posts

    0 points
    • Jim NielsenJim Nielsen, 9 years ago

      I used scriptogram previously. It's a pretty novel idea and the experience is rather seamless. However, I often had hosting issues where my domain would go down for hours on end and support/responsiveness of the team at scriptogram was spotty. Also, something as simple as testing/customizing your blog's theme isn't as easy as you might expect.

      In the end I switched to Jekyll with github hosting and it's been great thus far.

      0 points
  • Jamie MartinJamie Martin, 9 years ago

    It depends on what you're looking for; Medium & Svbtle are the newskool kids or you can use Tumblr.

    I prefer using a hosted solution with a community attached to it already because it makes your content more discoverable.

    0 points
  • Hmphry xHmphry x, 9 years ago

    I like Svbtle, as it's simple and showing code is effortless.

    0 points