Ask HN: What's your blogging workflowithtools?

[daryllxd]

Hi folks, what's your blogging workflow? I'm thinking tools (Jekyll, Gatsby, Wordpress), deployment (gh-pages, Netlify, AWS?), commenting (Disqus/own?), feedback forms (Formspree?), etc. What do you use?

(Used to do Jekyll, currently using Hugo on Github pages, but I'm thinking of switching to Gatsby since I know more React than Go, so it's harder for me to make changes).

[KajMagnus]

For commenting, I actually built a Disqus alternative: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments

It's hosted serverless + open source too like Isso.

But maybe doesn't matter much what commenting system one uses — because almost no blogs nowadays seem to get any comments, anyway :- / It's all Facebook and Reddit etc instead, right.

I have a blog with just 1 blog post, and it uses Gatsby. I'm thinking about switching to Hugo though because Gatsby feels a bit complicated, whilst Hugo seems to have "everything" built-in (like tags. I want tags). It's funny that you're using Hugo and thinking about switching to Gatsby :-) Like you, I know React well (that's why I went with Gatsby). And nothing about Go. Hmm I'll probably stick with Gatsby for the nearest future then.

Netlify right now. I had a look at your blog b.t.w., via your profile. Why shall each post be exactly 10 sentences :- )

[daryllxd]

Just a constraint so I force myself to do this, I'm barely pushing through day 6 hehe. Then I can go back next month and redo all the articles, hehe.

[moviuro]

I tried hugo and jekyll, but pages produced were still too heavy, so I built my own simple, stupid page generator which uses pandoc(1) [0]. With the little bit of trafic I get, and the tons of means to get in touch, I didn't subscribe to disqus or the like. And deployment is scp(1)-ing to my server, and a cron(1) job that copies said scp-ed directory to /usr/local/www .

[0] https://try.popho.be/pandoc.html

[ValentineC]

> currently using Hugo on Github pages, but I'm thinking of switching to Gatsby since I know more React than Go, so it's harder for me to make changes

As far as I know, Hugo requires very little knowledge of Go to use — going so far as to implement their own DSL of sorts.

What kind of features are you trying to implement that would require knowledge of Go?

[sgallant]

We use Hugo + Algolia (search) + Formspree + AWS. We disabled commenting (but used to use Disqus).

You can read about our set up here https://gohugo.io/showcase/forestry/

[KajMagnus]

Interesting writeup. What's the reason you disabled commenting?

[Rjevski]

Svbtle with no comments nor feedback forms - all pages include a "mailto" link in the footer if anyone needs to provide feedback or correct anything.