I haven't seen that. Earlier Freemo mentioned Git as being a possible base for a Blog, but I foudn that non-trivial, and time consuming.
For a newer user, not a productive path, as there are excellent hosts for Write.Freely which is a superb blog platform.
so I gave up on the idea, after briefly exploring it. We need to focus on getting simple tools that work, testing and learning them a bit, then hone some more.
With our own content production, which is the ultimate goal and reason for getting all these tools.
I absolutely love my Blogging work, it's a pleasure.
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I tried to use jekyll on github pages but failed, it sort of works if you really really know what you;re doing.
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Maybe its hard for me to see the problem as im technically oriented. It always seemed tow ork with no configuration for me. Just pick a template to start from and it works.
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Which goes in to what we call 'bus factor' which is when you have 1 person who can set up and use a system, if that person gets hit by a bus, then you lose them and your system can't updated or maintained.
Kinda like putting all eggs in one basket, it comes back to bite you when you least want it to.
At least once set up writefreely is easy to use, and easy to teach others, how to use.
Depending on a single lead user to maintain and develop a system has those risks. I was for years an active member at a documentaries forum, whose leader passed away.
Happily, a good team had been assembled by then, and kept the boat going -- and made it much better than under the founder's management, actually.
It has been many years since, and they are still very active and well known. The content is superb, great educational value, and the system exists for over 15 years now.
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Using gitlab for a blog is fairly non-trivial if you copy an existing template (and there are many).. for example you could clone my own blog and it will start working immediately. Want to do a blog post just add a markdown file int he directory of blog posts and it shows up.
It only becomes technical if you have a wish to start customizing CSS and everything else. But at that point youd have some similar problems with any blog platform.
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