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forrestthewoods on July 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost

I used Ghost once upon a time. Trying to customize Ghost themes to produce the output I wanted was an absolute nightmare.

My blog migrated from WordPress to Ghost to Medium. Now it’s artisinally hand crafted HTML+CSS+JS hosted on Netlify.

I know almost no one else is going to host their blog this way, but they should. Hand crafting is easier and more flexible than complex and constrained static site generators. The average blogger doesn’t have enough content to make a generator necessary or even valuable.

unicornporn on July 4, 2022 | [–]

> Now it’s artisinally hand crafted HTML+CSS+JS

Do you hand craft the Atom/RSS feeds too?

forrestthewoods on July 4, 2022 | | [–]

Yes. Although RSS feels like a waste of time in 2022.

rg111 on July 4, 2022 | | [–]

Have you tried Bear Blog [0]?

[0]: https://bearblog.dev

goindeep on July 4, 2022 | [–]

Give us a link?

forrestthewoods on July 4, 2022 | [–]

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/

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