Blogging Engine Research

I’ve been doing a bit of research to see what blogging engines exist that are in between WordPress (which is kind of a bloated mess) for running a small blog and Hugo and other static site generators which don’t have web based UIs and a few other features.

An interesting one that’s a minimalistic blogging engine but still not quite static site generator level minimalistic is Bludit. It looks like a very minimalistic blog that doesn’t have a lot of extra features or bloat to it. It supports markdown.

It’s not a static site generator but it has a flat file data structure so it’s easy to backup because it doesn’t have a MySQL database. That’s either you have to tolerate more RAM usage or break containerization by using a shared MySQL across all services on your server. So it looks like a pretty good option.

See also: goblog-freebsd, mastodon-thoughts, switching-from-apple, self-hosting-text-website