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Add to SafariWhen comparing Substance vs Fossil SCM, the Slant community recommends Substance for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Substance is ranked 24th while Fossil SCM is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Substance is:
One site is free, for other option see [pricing](https://substancehq.com/pricing).
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Pros
Pro Free for one site
One site is free, for other option see pricing.
Pro Easy importing of Jekyll posts
An easy to use interface for migrating from Jekyll is available.
Pro Clean and simple layouts
Substance doesn't clutter your blog, it gets out of the way so people can focus on reading.
Pro All in one
While most other platforms allow either online blogging, or development offline and hosting on some other platform, fossil allows you to develop locally, host it locally, view it locally, and you can substitue locally with remote if you want to.
It's just one file. Fossil.
Pro Free
It is. It is also free as in libre, as in the license is similar (or equivilant) to BSD-2
Pro Simple to use
Fossil doesn't depend on a specific language to be present on the target or development system. Just write, commit, and done.
Cons
Con You have to do everything manually and know what you're doing
It is similar to the "Writing your own solution" option
