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Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed

15 points • by textlanes33 • yesterday at 11:41 PM • 9 comments • view on HN

Hello. I built a blogging platform on my own over two years.

I like running my blog, but I couldn't find a blogging platform I really liked.

First. I thought a blog had to be really lightweight. Fortunately, after a lot of effort, I was able to achieve satisfactory results. (99 to 100 score)

Here is a sample blog: https://bloffy.bloffy.blog/en

You can check it with PageSpeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis?url=https://bloffy.bloffy...

SEO score of the sample blog is low because I blocked it from search engine indexing (noindex).

Second. I think bloggers should have control over their own blog. The blogging platforms I used had several problems.

Unnecessary JavaScript chunks. Ads that the platform inserted into my blog, not my own ads. Cannot manage multiple blogs. An editor that makes it hard to write semantic markup. Limited customization options. I was dissatisfied with the difficulty of placing my own ads.

And to solve this, I spent quite a long time researching and developing it on my own, and finally created it. I'm glad to share this launch with HN. I would appreciate any criticism, feedback, and interest.


Comments

gazook89 • today at 2:18 AM

The email I got for the confirmation step was entirely in Korean, just fyi.

I shared bloffy with a few people I volunteer with, since we contribute to a side-by-side markdown/css editor with a live preview as well (though not for blogging).

I think you should make clear that the "Translation" option, to create additional pages for translations, doesn't actually do the translation for you. It just creates a subpage for a translation.

One annoying thing I'm finding is that iOS/MacOS autocorrects `bloffy` into `bloody` at every chance it gets.

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textlanes33 • today at 3:00 AM

There's currently a bug that breaks sign-up on every language version of the site except English. If you'd like to sign up now, please use the English sign-up page and keep the site in English until you're done: https://bloffy.co/en/workspace/sign-up

I'm fixing this right now.

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amanzi • today at 2:26 AM

Is this a hosted solution? Open source?

I can't tell from your website how you are solving this problem: "I think bloggers should have control over their own blog."

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whattheheckheck • today at 2:06 AM

The images take up a lot of mobile screen space with low information

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dnurvianto • today at 2:06 AM

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radobravo • today at 3:23 AM

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ricoreads • today at 12:36 AM

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