mataroa VS Hexo

I love Mataroa: https://mataroa.blog

I jumped from WordPress to Mataroa and I'm also using Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and Obsidian to blog.

There are a lot of great things about Mataroa that I love. I've blogged about Mataroa: https://pivic.blog/blog/mataroa/

Same for me, too.

I honestly love https://mataroa.blog it ended my paralysis for searching a blog platform, and every page is bog standard HTML. It accepts Markdown, plus it has its own anonymous analytics, so it's nice.

git clone https://github.com/mataroa-blog/mataroa.git

https://blog.bayindirh.io

It's a semi-regular, assorted blog about my adventures and experiences in life. Generally semi-focused on minimalism, computers and life in general.

It's powered by https://mataroa.blog/, which is very minimal and a joy to use.

I'm using Mataroa[0] as my blogging platform and it comes with its own analytics. It's very simple, and gives me the following:

- Read counts per post, for the last 30 days.

- How many RSS pulls, for the last 30 days.

- How many site visits, for the last 30 days.

Nothing more, nothing less. I'm pretty happy with them, and have no intention to change it.

[0]: https://mataroa.blog

Already in use.

Until this is fixed, anyone would be much better off going for Bear Blog [2] or Mataroa [3].

[1]: https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well

[2]: https://bearblog.dev/

[3]: https://mataroa.blog/

https://smol.pub and https://mataroa.blog are also nice examples. I host my blog in Mataroa, and love the experience so far.

A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before!

Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week.

I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses markdown and supports tags. It has a lot of neat plugins that people have developed, too.

I like it so far!

https://github.com/hexojs/hexo

In my case, the latter is not possible because this blog is a static site, generated via Hexo and hosted on GitHub. It simply lacks a modifiable active server component.

Hexo — best lightweight SSG

Previously I've used Nuxt2 and even sooner - hexo.io

To make their creation easier, numerous open-source static websites generators are available: Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Hexo, etc. Most of the time, the content is managed through static (ideally Markdown) files or a Content API. Then, the generator requests the content, injects it in templates defined by the developer and generates a bunch of HTML files.

https://gohugo.io/ written in go, support md https://hexo.io/ written in node

Hexo's

I'm currently using Hexo, I write articles in markdown, commit them to a git repository and push them to Github. I then have a Github Action to bundle the static website and publish it on Github Pages, so I get free hosting 👌

There are also many alternatives for selecting Static-Side Generating blog framework such as Hexo, Gatsby, Next.js (more details here). We will pick Hexo as our framework because it is a fast, simple & powerful blog framework.

Some alternatives I'm considering learning instead of Gatsby are Jeckyll or Hexo.