[philipwalton]

I started out using Octopress but in the end chose to go just plain Jekyll and borrow from Octopress only the things I needed. I'm pretty happy with my decision.

Ultimately, you just need to look at the feature-set of Octopress and decide if you actually want those things (custom theme, Disqus and GA integration, etc). If you do, great, if not, it's probably going to get in the way more than help.

[peddamat]

Do you mind if I ask which parts of Octopress you found most useful?

[philipwalton]

Mainly parts from two of the rake tasks: 1) to create new posts 2) to deploy to Github pages