QuestForTori

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Victoria Rose | Bi trans girl | Game/UX Designer | Creator of Secret Little Haven | Your local otherkin cartoon snep kitty :3

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dwoboyle
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What's actually a good place to host blogs?

I'm not really interested in neocities. I want something that is easy to use with minimal web design or code knowledge necessary. Something that will let me add user-viewable tags to sort updates and let me create pages and the like.

I've used blogger before, but is that even still around?

I watch hoping itch.io's blogs would work since it has a lot of seemingly nice features, but its tagging system is basically not real and usuwrs can't search or anything useful.

Thanks!

Edit: oh! I should mention, I'm planning on using this for some episodic fiction serieses I'm working on.

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kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

I think bear blog would be a minimal solution that covers the case, but you might have to futz around a little bit to make tags do things. Also might look at Ghost or writefreely/write.as. You could definitely also use a more old-school / full-featured blog platform like wordpress.

If a static site generator will work (i.e., you don't need a browser-based post editor, you don't need mobile clients, you don't users to be able to leave comments etc.) then Publii is not bad and doesn't require coding. I used it to set up a photo blog / portfolio site dingus recently and it was reasonably pleasant to work with. You'll need some kind of web host for it but any should do.

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krveale
@krveale

I think bear blog or dreamwidth would be good choices.

I'd also recommend Pillowfort as an alternative long-form option with tags, and which has a growing number of folks from cohost trying it out?

I can share resources designed to make it easy to explore and see if it'd suit your needs if it'd be useful, although it's sounding like you're probably sorted elsewhere?

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krveale
@krveale

Fantastic!

Somebody wrote up a primer about its pros and cons here: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5276578

and if you want to see what it CAN look like in practice, my feed's available here as an example: https://www.pillowfort.social/DoktorHobo

(There's a lot of variety as people focus on different things.)

I made a page of tips for getting the best out of PF here if that'd be useful?

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3459763

It has links to pages with link-lists for the active communities here, and other resources?

There's also a community plugin called Tassel that might be useful to folks from cohost: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5281123

It lets you do things like hide whatever numbers you want, collapse NSFW posts, and carry over tags when resharing.

And here's one of the (several?) communities set up by folks from cohost: https://www.pillowfort.social/community/The%20Cohost%20Eggbug%20Memorial)

Generally I'm happy to answer questions as best I can?

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