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Nikola
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HTML input
Nikola posts may be written in a variety of formats. You can write posts in HTML, with all the expressive power of HTML and CSS, and still have the benefits of a site-wide theme and navigation structure.
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Host on any web server
Nikloa sites are static files, and thus may be hosted on any web server that allows you to upload your own files. This lets you use simple and inexpensive hosting providers and still have a reliable site.
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Write in reStructuredText and Markdown
You have better choices for markup than raw HTML.
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Free open-source software (MIT license)
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Gatsby JS
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No page reload when navigating
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A bit raw
You'll maybe have to tweak some JSX if you want something that's not covered by available themes.
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Based on React.js
Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.
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Live reload
Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.
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A lot of plugins
Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.
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Very active development
Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.
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Built-in code and data splitting
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Open Source
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Take content from any source
Gatsby can generate the pages with content from any sources like Drupal, Wordpress, Contentful, etc. If the source plugin is not coded for your solution, you can create it.
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A static site and a React app in one
The static pages are generated by Server Site Rendering of the React app. So you have all benefits of a static site, and all benefits of a React app, which is very powerful.
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GraphQL Data Layer
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A lot of examples
Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.
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Beautiful out-of-the-box blog starters
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Write.as
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Protects your privacy
Works totally anonymously or you can sign up with a pen name.
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Very simple
The editor only lets you write plain text, select from a few fonts, and use Markdown for formatting. It's difficult to use Write.as for more complicated blogging or creating a full website.
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No sign up required
You can publish without ever signing up or giving out your email address.
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The writing space is very limited
The writing window is limited to only about one-fifth of the page, the rest is just blank. You can only see about three lines of text at a time. Seems like a mismanaging of space.
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Clean writing space
It's made for writing, so there aren't crazy buttons and alerts all over the place to distract you.
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License:
AGPL
Price:
$1-$25 / month
Free tier:
Yes
Language:
Go
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Svbtle
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Not free
It costs 6$ per month.
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Clean writing experience
Svbtle encourages you to write down ideas as soon as they come to you and flesh them out as time goes by.
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No unicode character support
Writing in other languages that require utf-8 support is not possible.
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Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
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No comments system
Svbtle has on way of leaving a comment. The only way of communicating with the author is via email or Twitter if he chooses to supply that information.
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Svbtle can provide an audience
You can get your post featured ensuring that it will be read.
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No real customization options
Accent color can be changed and that's about it.
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Kudos system
Intended for appreciating a post. Works by holding a mouse over a circle for 2 seconds, impossible to cancel.
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Markdown support
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code.
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Clean design
Svbtle has a beautiful, minimalist aesthetic - no clutter, all focus towards comfortably reading what's written.
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Custom domain support
You can choose a svbtle.com subdomain or your own domain.
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Hexo
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Fast and easy to use
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Relatively large community but the majority is non-english speakers
Hexo has a relatively large following and community, especially in China. While this is certainly a positive, many developers who do not know chinese would be unable to follow all the guides and tutorials out there written by their chineses counterparts.
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Deployment is easy and fast
Hexo built sites can be easily deployed to Github pages, Heroku, Openshift (custom cartridge needs to be setup) or any other custom solution (just copy over thepublic folder). Any deployment is as simple as editing the _config.yml file and running the hexo deploycommand
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Generating a blog is pretty fast
Generating a new blog with Hexo is generally really fast. Hexo truly lives up to it's name as a simple and fast static website generator.
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Constantly updated and actively maintained
Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.
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Complete and helpful documentation
Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.
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License:
MIT
Language:
JavaScript
Template Engine:
Swig, EJS, Haml, Pug
Markup Languages:
HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, Org-Mode
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Postach.io
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Blog using Evernote
Use your Evernote app notes as content for your blog. Just add a "published" tag to your note and you're done.
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Markdown support
You can write using Markdown syntax on Postach.io.
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Good themes
Well-designed themes, more than you would expect for a lightweight solution.
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Familiar to Evernote users
It's based on a tool you probably already know well and use a lot. No need to go anywhere else.
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Customizable themes
You can change the look and layout of your blog.
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Custom domain support
Postachio.io allows for using your own custom domain.
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Multimedia support
Any media file you can use in Evernote, such as images, audio, video can be used in Postach.io.
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Comments system
People can leave comments on your blog via the Disqus comments system.
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RSS feeds
People can subscribe to your blog using RSS feeds.
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Grav CMS
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Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
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Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
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Silvrback
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Image headers have a very awkward size
Lots of time wasted on finding something suitable.
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Excellent blog layout
There is no clutter and it's easy to read.
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No Two Factor authentication
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Real-time post preview feature
You can view your end-result right as you're writing.
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No free or ad-supported option
Annual or monthly subscription only.
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Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your articles.
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Great user interface
It is intuitive, does not get in the way of writing or reading.
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Custom favicon support
Favicon is the icon in the address bar next to the URL. Most places with a subdomain only allow their own icon. Silvrback allows you your own.
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Supports custom domains
You can set up and use your own domain name.
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Substance
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Free for one site
One site is free, for other option see pricing.
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Easy importing of Jekyll posts
An easy to use interface for migrating from Jekyll is available.
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Clean and simple layouts
Substance doesn't clutter your blog, it gets out of the way so people can focus on reading.
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Pelican
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Open source
All code is available on GitHub.
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Theme inheritance doesn't seem to be a priority
There have been endless discussions for years but theme inheritance still doesn't seem to be a thing. You can "inherit" from the simple theme so you don't have to have all the required files in your theme, but that's as far as it goes.
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Active community
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Not as powerful as other more popular site generators
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Uses a versatile, powerful and easy to use templating engine
Uses Jinja.
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A little bit slower than some of its competitors
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Code syntax highlighting
Uses Pygments for code highlighting.
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Support for unique templates per page
Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.
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Content can be written in multiple formats
Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.
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Import your existing blog from many sources
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Customisable Themes and support for Plugins
Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.
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Multilingual
Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.
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Quite fast even for sites with thousands of posts
Can spin up an build sites with thousands of articles in a matter of seconds even on very old computers.
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Language:
Python
Template Engine:
Jinja2
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reStructuredText, Markdown, AsciiDoc
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Hugo
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Open-source and free
Code can be viewed on GitHub.
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No tutorial on how to create a theme from scratch
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Fast
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No dependencies
All other SSGs expect you to have a full toolchain setup for their language. Hugo is written in Go and distributed as an executable for unix, linux, windows and mac. Just download and run.
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Clean workflow
Create your new site, run the Hugo server, edit. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hugo stays out of the way.
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Flexible
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Good documentation
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Many themes available
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Draft mode
Allows you to see changes in real time.
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Single binary - cross platform
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Single source publishing
Can create PDFs, eBooks, RSS-Feeds, language and market specific Websites from single content folder.
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Great multipurpose development platform
We are using Hugo as the base-framework for a full blown knowledge management system, idea-management and inhouse brainstorming tool. Hugo source-code is well structures and comes with top components out of the box, that makes every solution built on this framework incredible fast and scalable accross platforms and corporate silos! Hugo - when being used as a framework is a game-changer that puts Sharepoint, Wordpress and Co. back to the shelf.
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Very active community
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Easy to add new content types, data files, and taxonomies
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Language:
Go
Template Engine:
Go html/template
Markup Languages:
HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
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Sett
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Discoverable Content
With Sett, one doesn't feel like an island in isolation. There is an active community of bloggers who's content is easy to find
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Promises an audience?
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Promises an audience
Sett is focused on bringing community attention and participation to their users articles.
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Zero setup required
You only need to provide your e-mail address to create a blog and start writing.
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Track stats
Sett allows easy tracking of visitors, subscribers and comments.
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Advanced blogging tools
Sett can queue your posts (automatically and manually) to be published at a later time and using a WYSIWYG editor. You can set the permalink to what you want by hand, order posts into categories and exchange private messages.
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Jekyll
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GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
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It's slow for sites with a lot of posts
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Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog posts
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Little Windows support
Windows is not an officially supported platform and setting it up on Windows requires a lot more tinkering than Linux or OSX.
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Has a built in server
You can spin up a static server at localhost:4000 by running jekyll serve
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Code highlighting with pygments
Jekyll has Pygments code highlighting built in so you can create syntax highlighted code blocks on your blog.
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Excels at blogging
Jekyll pages are structured by posts, which makes it easier to build a blog.
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Decent documentation
Link to docs
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Import your existing blog from many sources
Jekyll supports importing from many dynamic blog engines: CSV Drupal 6 Drupal 7 Enki Google Reader Joomla Jrnl Marley Mephisto Movable Type Posterous RSS S9Y Textpattern Tumblr Typo WordPress WordPress.com
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Has built in watch mode
Watch mode will reconstruct the site as pages are updated which is great for testing.
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Large, active and helpful community
Thanks to it's popularity, Jekyll has a large and active community of users. This means there is plenty of learning material available for Jekyll and it's easy to find help from other users when needed.
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Customisable with data and collections
Can make sites very different from blogs but with a lot of pages by making templates using data and collections.
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License:
MIT
Language:
Ruby
Template Engine:
Liquid
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HTML, Markdown
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Tumblr
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Free
It costs nothing to create a Tumblr account.
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Community-driven
It is built around sharing and discovering new, short-form content.
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Good customization options
Tumblr allow users to customize their website with many built-in themes. In addition to theme selection, user can also further customize their website either through a customization editor wizard or through a HTML and CSS editor for advanced users.
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Supports responsive design & mobile-friendly websites
Tumblr supports responsive design for the website as it will be fitted with the same theme based on which device the user is using to view the website. It can also vary by theme with responsive design availability.
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Great mobile apps
Easy to use Windows Phone, iOS and Android are available.
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Custom domain support
If you want to use your own domain instead of *.tumblr.com, you can.
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Quora
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No customization options
There is no way of making your Quora blog different from any other Quora blog. It is only an extension of your Quora profile.
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Tags help promote your content
When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic.
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Community interested in learning
Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things.
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enduro.js
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Hardly any github commits since fall '16
See: https://github.com/Gottwik/Enduro/graphs/code-frequency
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Minimalistic
No clutter and useless features.
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No support for databases
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Beautiful admin panel
Clients are always amazed how smooth and good looking the admin interface is.
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Community size
The community around the project looks quite small. Anyone to confirm my thought ?
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Productive
Currently, probably the most productive CMS around. There is almost no setup, admin is auto generated, 100% development in code editing, shared backend/front end templates, and shared javascript code.
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License:
MIT
Service integrations:
nODE
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JavaScript
Default Template Engine:
Handlebars
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Medium
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Clean, beautiful pages
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
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Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
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Excellent readability
There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.
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Not self-hostable
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Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
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Cannot customise domain address
From April 2018, Medium has removed the ability to set a customised domain on new accounts.
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Clean writing experience
Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
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Proprietary
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Great inbound channels to acquire bigger audiences quickly
Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.
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Limited customization options
In order to create a dead simple way to use the service, possibility to customize your blog was sacrificed. Medium publications, however, do allow a limited amount of customization.
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Unintrusive yet powerful community interaction
Allows for finding new, related content.
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Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment system
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Great post editor
A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.
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Freemium philosophy
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Bookmarking
Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.
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Export is limited
The only export option is HTML. If you want to migrate away from Medium for some reason, it might be very difficult to do so.
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Paragraph based commenting
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
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Recommendation system
Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.
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Photo upload and display is aesthetically pleasing
If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.
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Built-in analytics
Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.
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Collaborative if you want it to be
You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.
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Google Analytics support
They can enable this for you upon request.
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Excellent Post editor
With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.
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Ghost
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Open source
Anyone can view code of Ghost since it's under a libre/open source license.
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Commenting must be added
One needs to edit their post.hbs file and add some code from Disqus in order for commenting to be available.
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Extremely simple
It only does a few things and it does them well. Unlike WordPress, with which you can build a universe, a blog or anything in between, Ghost is simple.
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Expensive
Too expensive for what you actually get. There are other solutions that have more or less the same features at a lower cost.
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Markdown support
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code for complete flexibility.
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Poor multilingual support
Its editor does not properly support Asian characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean due to a bug in IME. It is difficult to write properly in Asian letters.
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Custom domain support
Setting up a custom domain is effortless - fill the in the form and change DNS entries. Done.
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Finding Ghost host sites can be difficult
If wanting to host elsewhere, some of the other ghost hosting sites are hard to find, and once found they vary in features and functions. There isn't a single standard of service across the board.
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Self-host & paid Ghost(Pro)-host options
You can download the source code and set it up yourself (just make sure your hosting provider supports node.js). Alternatively, you can use their Ghost(Pro) service to let them host it for you. Paid plans start at $10/mo.
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Self-hosted might be hard to setup
Requires NodeJS and NPM which both come with a lot of dependencies. Also requires editting configuration files manually.
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Official Docker image
Very easy setup with an official image from Docker. Just needs a custom config.json and you are pretty much good to go.
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Inappropriate terminology in the UI
Despite some community support of having it removed, Ghost still prominently uses the following phrase in the UI: "Display a sexy logo for your publication." This terminology can be considered exclusionary and even inappropriate in a professional environment.
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Theme marketplace
A built-in way to get and set up themes.
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Real-time preview
You can see markdown on one side of the pane and the result on the other, while writing.
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Customizable
Themes may be uploaded, as can logos and covers.
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Free hosting on Github Pages via Buster
You can host your Ghost blog for free on Github Pages if you are OK with it being turned into a static site. You can use Buster to generate a static site from Ghost that can then be hosted on Github Pages.
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Affordable hosting available
There are lots of affordable hosting plans available for Ghost blogs.
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Generated html is very bad
A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning.
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Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
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Hard to migrate away
There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to.
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Straightforward drag & drop interface
There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.
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Dated templates
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Personalized templates
Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.
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Unpleasant sign-up process
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Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed
This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.
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Great support
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Jux
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closed down
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Visual follow feature
Jux allows following people. Follower and following lists are displayed in a visual way - showing 3 most recent entries in an aesthetically pleasing way.
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Google Street View integration
Pick an address, a title and a caption and post. Readers of your blog will not only be able to view the exact angle at which you've pointed the view, but also pan around to see the surroundings.
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