Comments: Why We Run Our Own Blog

[orta]

This blog just passed the 7 year mark from our initial ["Hello World"][hw] post. We've always built and hosted our own blog, initially [using OctoPress][octo] but eventually migrating to just plain old Jekyll. This means our 221 posts are just plain markdown files in a GitHub repo.

Artsy uses 3 separate editorial platforms now, we built our own for Artsy Magazine, use Medium for our [Life at Artsy blog][laab] and Jekyll for the engineering blog. There was a healthy debate about whether we would migrate to one, or two systems, but I had pretty strong opinions on migrating the engineering blog to Medium and nipped that in the bud pretty quickly.

[Tanish-Eagle]

I never thought of using issues as comments, I am considering jekyll and github pages for my blog, where I am thinking of publishing my web novel along with my regular blog posts.