I've been working on Jant [0], an open-source blogging platform for a single author with a modern publishing UI, in the spirit of Tumblr. It deploys to Cloudflare Workers, and natively supports Note, Link, and Quote formats, plus Thread-style replies. It also syncs with GitHub — the synced repo is a Hugo site that builds on its own.
This month has mostly been about adding multilingual support to Jant. It's for bilingual authors — the common case being someone writing for both Chinese and English readers — so they can publish to each language's audience separately within Jant.
I'm also designing a feature called Repost: when you see a post you like on another blog, you can repost it to your own Jant blog along with the original URL.
Code's on GitHub [1], and there's a demo [2] to try it out.
I really like this approach. I make similar distinctions between posts meant for email, posts that should appear in RSS, posts that belong on the homepage, and posts that should live under /archive without appearing on the homepage.
I use Substack for email distribution too. For the website side, I built an open-source blogging platform called Jant (https://jant.me) around these needs: posts appear on the homepage by default, posts marked as Featured are included in RSS, and posts can also be unlisted. It also syncs everything to GitHub as Markdown, in a repo that works as a complete Hugo site.
This month has mostly been about adding multilingual support to Jant. It's for bilingual authors — the common case being someone writing for both Chinese and English readers — so they can publish to each language's audience separately within Jant.
I'm also designing a feature called Repost: when you see a post you like on another blog, you can repost it to your own Jant blog along with the original URL.
Code's on GitHub [1], and there's a demo [2] to try it out.
[0] https://jant.me [1] https://github.com/jant-me/jant [2] https://demo.jant.me