Sett vs Fossil SCM
When comparing Sett vs Fossil SCM, the Slant community recommends Sett for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Sett is ranked 26th while Fossil SCM is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Sett is:
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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Pros
Pro 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
Pro Promises an audience
Sett is focused on bringing community attention and participation to their users articles.
Pro Zero setup required
You only need to provide your e-mail address to create a blog and start writing.
Pro Track stats
Sett allows easy tracking of visitors, subscribers and comments.
Pro 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.
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 Promises an audience?
Need more traction
Con You have to do everything manually and know what you're doing
It is similar to the "Writing your own solution" option