I've been reading a lot on Markdown blog engines recently. I even considered moving this blog to GitHub Pages, so that I could blog natively in Markdown. Why? Let's see...
Consider this:
- Blogger is an outdated platform that’s barely maintained by Google.
- WordPress is a greedy, unsecure platform that everyone and their mom are using.
- Medium.com, Substack… do you even own your content anymore?
- GitHub Pages and Jekyll are awesome, but building and running a blog with them is more complicated than it should be.
- Don’t even mention Tumblr.
Don’t get me wrong, the classic blogging platforms aren’t going away… In fact, they’re not going anywhere… and that’s mostly the issue. They’re stuck in 2010 when hacking together a blog was cool. The result? Most blogs are old and look old…