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I just noticed (and made a post on BBOARD under REQUESTS) that Jekyll doesn't seem to be available anymore. It seemed as of a few years ago that was the popular choice for hosting a blog on SDF.

But maybe there are better solutions these days?

I don't want to do some sort of Wordpress or any sort of database-backed thing. I just want a lightweight, static generator of some sort, that can take Markdown and update a bunch of HTML files, maintaining the site structure, index files, etc. etc.

Back in the day I used Blosxom for this, but it got hard to keep running (at least for me, not being very into Perl), so I migrated everything over to Jekyll... but it's never really been the lightweight, easy-to-use solution that I hoped it would be.

Anyone have thoughts or suggestions?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I decided to move to gemini on SDF. Data is far easier to maintain and you can use any editor to add/change files.

In case you do not know what I am referring to:

https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=gemini_site_setup_and_hosting_features

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reminder about Gemini... I decided to try it out and have been enjoying the process so far. We'll see how it goes!