# Blogging Platform suggestions?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blogging-platform-suggestions/127465>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blogging-platform-suggestions/127465 "2008-01-29T15:37:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bira)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blogging-platform-suggestions/127465/1 "2008-01-29T15:37:42Z")

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Hello,

First of all, I would like to apologize for being off-topic.

As you can see in my signature, I have a Portuguese language blog on  
Blogger/Blogspot, but I haven’t been very satisfied with this platform  
lately. It has started throwing exceptions in my face when I try to  
post something, so I think it’s time to move. Since so many people  
here have blogs, I would like to ask for your recommendation of a  
better platform/hosting service.

I know there’s been a theory talked about lately that the best thing  
to do is to build your own blog and host it, and this is something I  
would like to do in the future, but I’m looking for a somewhat quicker  
solution right now :). I’d like to use a free hosted service that  
supports code syntax highlighting, and is reasonably flexible in terms  
of theme and layout customization. Having the ability to import from  
Blogger is a plus. I’m leaning a bit towards Wordpress right now, as  
it seems to fill most of these criteria, but I’m wondering if there  
isn’t some hip new thing somewhere out there :).

Again, sorry for the noise. Please reply privately if you think a  
public response would further pollute the list.

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**Author:** ![Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bira)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blogging-platform-suggestions/127465/2 "2008-01-29T20:22:22Z")

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Heya,

I have a blog for my friends and me on my own webspace in German,  
driven by Wordpress. It works quite well. Just a lot of pictures and a  
short text. Pictures are hosted at Picasaweb and shown in an iframe.  
Not the best solution, but it works fine for us:  
[Seite nicht gefunden – Wieczos Blog](http://www.wieczo.net/wochenende).

I am planning to get a programming blog done with  
rassmalog[[rassmalog.rubyforge.org/](http://rassmalog.rubyforge.org/)]. Is a Ruby project to create a  
static blog, supports many template engines and syntax highlightning.  
Sounds interesting and I can do something with Ruby.

Regards, Thomas

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**Author:** ![Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bira)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blogging-platform-suggestions/127465/3 "2008-02-01T19:43:11Z")

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:36:43PM +0900, Bira wrote:

> Again, sorry for the noise. Please reply privately if you think a  
> public response would further pollute the list.

I’ve been running a personal weblog with WordPress for a long time. It  
has its ups and downs. Among the downs are some of the asinine  
assumptions it makes about what the user wants to do, the spaghetti code  
under the hood, and the tendency of upgrades for security patches to  
break stuff. Among the upsides are things like the fact it’s not  
Blogger, or LiveJournal, which are even worse.

Whatever you do, avoid using a weblog _service_. Get some shared  
hosting (with SFTP for secure file transfers) at least, and run your own  
weblog software. Many Blogger and LiveJournal don’t realize the  
frustration that readers who are not Blogger or LiveJournal users  
encounter when trying to deal with these services.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that I should write my own weblog  
software. I intend to start a second personal weblog and write the  
software as I go. This one will, at least initially, be specifically a  
development weblog, and be used to chronicle the process of writing the  
software for, um, itself. At least, that’s the plan at this time.  
I’ll probably just maintain the old one with WordPress as an archive of  
my old material after I get the software written to the point where I  
can  
restart my general-purpose personal weblog without giving up any needed  
functionality.