Here we go
15 hours ago
- Author's old Hugo blog broke after a Hugo update, prompting a decision to build a simple blogging platform.
- Static site generators like Hugo have UX issues: writing in code editors, publishing via git, and lack of easy image uploads.
- Ghost and WordPress are problematic: Ghost is too commercial, WordPress is intimidating.
- Small platforms like Bear, Pika, and Mataroa are almost perfect, but the author wants to build a custom platform.
- New platform named Exotext focuses on simplicity, beautiful design, speed (<0.5s), old web UX, portability, community features, an online markdown editor with image uploads, and RSS.
- Finding a good markdown editor is difficult; TinyMDE is used but lacks undo functionality.