Sett vs Hexo

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

Sett is focused on bringing community attention and participation to their users articles.

You only need to provide your e-mail address to create a blog and start writing.

Sett allows easy tracking of visitors, subscribers and comments.

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.

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

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.

Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.

Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.