Ask YC: What Blogging Software do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173065

by dawie • 18 years ago

9 22 18 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

If your blogging software is mentioned, vote for it otherwise add it to the list.

bigtoga• 18 years ago

Blogger for personal, Typepad for business.

cperciva• 18 years ago

I wrote my own shell script for taking a directory containing posts and rendering my blog.

bkbleikamp• 18 years ago

I have used WordPress(.org) & MoveableType.

Of the two WordPress is by far my favorite. The caching helps it scale nearly as well as MoveableType and there are a lot more themes, a ton of plugins, and a very active community to help with anything you need.

Also WP is written with PHP and is a breeze to setup. MT is Perl and most people who aren't hackers tend to get scared away from the config files.

SwellJoe• 18 years ago

To be fair to MT, the recent versions have a nice setup wizard. It's still more trouble to install than WordPress, but there are far fewer instances where you're seeing configuration files in Movable Type these days. (But we use WordPress, anyway.)

Mrinal• 18 years ago

Typepad for business and Vox for personal

JulianMontez• 18 years ago

Using Chyrp http://chyrp.net/ . Nice open-source tumblelog software. :)

Milansoc15• 18 years ago

I use blogger with my own domain. Started the blog as part of a college class, use it more for personal stuff now

Readmore• 18 years ago

Wrote my own with Rails.

izak30• 18 years ago

Servee(.com)

wastedbrains• 18 years ago

Movable Type

khangtoh• 18 years ago

memphisto

jamesbritt• 18 years ago

Mephisto

generalk• 18 years ago

Using Wordpress right now (voted for that one) but I'm looking strongly at Mephisto. Written in Rails and has a badass name? Sign me up!

apgwoz• 18 years ago

a custom built django application powers photub.com.

brlewis• 18 years ago

OurDoings (my own). It started out as a photo-sharing site, but it grew into blogging. It now integrates with Disqus for comments and Technorati for trackbacks. It also integrates with FriendFeed (ff) using a push system that automatically includes thumbnails of photos related to your posts. In this way it's better than letting ff pull from your blog's feed, because media RSS is not yet supported by ff.

cmm324• 18 years ago

blogger for personal and corporate

jrockway• 18 years ago

Angerwhale.

http://www.angerwhale.org/

azsromej• 18 years ago

I wrote my own, but I did end up copying 2 functions from WordPress (wpautop and some kses input stuff).

1gor• 18 years ago

RapidWeaver on mac os x. (Similar to MovableType but less hassle).

BostonDave• 18 years ago

Wordpress (huge fan) but also considering Drupal as well.

mattdennewitz• 18 years ago

writing ones own blogging software has become a "coming of age" experience anymore :)

borga• 18 years ago

Wordpress, but I used MT in the past. I prefer Wordpress due to the amount of nice add-ons, themes, etc that are available.

Ask YC: What Blogging Software do you use?

Related Stories