I wanna start blogging again. Maybe I make a platform on Ghost? Is that a thing people actually use? Like obviously we're not going to post on Substack for the Nazis, but I'm not sure what the best alternative would be.
- Adrianna
(And before you suggest we should make our own website, we tried that, it did not go well. Fun to tinker with but we don't have the knowledge needed.)
@estrogenandspite could I ask, where did you get stuck on your homemade website adventure? I'm always wondering how to make that artform more accessible to less technical types
@estrogenandspite Thank you! And yeah, wordpress is a pain.. Interesting to hear that about site builders; I'd figured there was more of a variety than what I'd seen but there's seemingly a chasm between CMSes like WordPress and commandline static-site generators that assume a dev background. thanks, I might make something..
p.s. I remember there was this cohost user that built something like this, but in my archive I only find a post complaining about the same issue :'(
@ckie Making it look nice and also discoverability. Like... I ran a blog on Wordpress for a while and that was fine because it had built in discoverability and templates I could use to make it pretty, but when I tried to self-host it was just...way too complicated.
Most prefab options are too expensive or too focused on building things other than blogs like sales sites or such, so finding something that hits my needs is hard.