Ask HN: Which blog platform is your company using for public-facing content? I'm curious as to what platforms the HN community are using for external facing company blogs (to post news, opinion, marketing material, engineering posts etc). Obvious choices include Medium or the blogging features of a static site system (such as Jekyll + Netlify). What else? In 2019, what blogging platforms are people using, and why? |
I actually listed all the things I'd need to recreate with a migration, and it's basically:
1. The entire account system 2. Plus the admin dashboard 3. Post/content editor 4. Media library 5. Paid subscriptions setup 6. Social media integrations 7. Apple News integration 8. Permalinks/friendly URLs 9. Any systems WordPress has for data sanitisation 10. Plus the challenge of either matching the original URL setup or flawlessly redirecting about 20,000 pages.
Also budget stuff. Most companies I've worked for don't spend a lot of time building their own site/blog, and wouldn't budget for an entirely custom CMS build or migration.
Personally, I like the fact that I get traffic over self publishing. Interested people can click on the url in my profile and reach my website. I post very infrequently but reach 1-10k reads/post lately.
I come from Hugo (hosted on S3 or Netlify) but it doesn’t scale once non technical people enter the company.
Also, I wear so many hats at my company every thing that makes writing and publishing great content easier is worth it.
I really, really love Ghost.
And if so, are you just putting the result on S3? or perhaps deploying with Netlify?