Re: [libreplanet-discuss] helping newcomers start blogs - but where?

[Mike Gerwitz]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 19:52:51 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> blogger.com

Blogger requires non-free JS to even begin to render a page.  I've never
been able to read any blogs hosted on that site, unfortunately.

Unless things have since changed.

> Github pages have also become popular with developers recently.

While static pages hosted on github.io do not carry the same problems as
GitHub itself (non-free JS), you'd be encouraging users to use GitHub to
do so.

A further consideration is how the static site with Jekyll is published:
through a build outside of the user's control.  It is SaaSS.[0]

Any host that allows the user to upload their own website in their
entirety---and have full control over that website---would be fine to
avoid such an SaaSS issue.  That's your traditional web host, provided
that you can use it without running non-free software (mainly JS) to
register an account and upload.


[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

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