[calebhicks]

A group of us got together and put this together.

We decided that Wordpress sucked for us. Then we stepped into static blogging with Pelican. Then we realized that static blogging kinda sucks too. Setting it up and the dearth of themes are rough.

Can you give us some feedback? We're still working on this together, and would love to hear what you guys think.

[marquis]

I know people who run galleries and such things, who find Wordpress too complicated. Markdown is great because they can do rich formatting without needing to learn HTML, but with more control that WYSIWYG. Maybe you want to post a tutorial to add a CNAME to Dropbox. I don't think they really care that the urls would look like /u/xyz/file.html|jpg. What's missing is a markdown editor and light CMS, perhaps.

[underwater]

Great idea and presentation. A few immediate questions: What are the limits of what I can do with this? Can I add commenting, tags or search? How easy is it to edit the pages (what syntax do I use)? And why do I need to provide a host? Paying a little extra for included hosting seems a no brainer.

[roberthahn]

This is the kind of thing I think NearlyFreeSpeech.net[1] would be well suited for.

They appear to have tuned their servers and business model for static web sites - if they don't serve any of your files, you pay nothing. Otherwise, you pay only for what you use.

Disclaimer: I've never used their services, but I've checked them out from time to time.

[1] https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting

[calebhicks]

Great questions.

Commenting is made possible with Disqus, the third-party comment system.

Search can be done using Google custom search. We're looking into better ways to do this.

Sites are updated using Markdown or LaTex.

We're looking at building hosting into this as well. For now, we're helping make it easier and pushing it to your FTP or S3 buckets.