LAlauradhamilton·Mar 12, 2014
If you like ruby on rails and want something lightweight that's easy to customize: https://github.com/natew/obtvse2
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natew / obtvse2
obtvse2
A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails.
3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
255GitHub stars
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What it is
A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails.
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Observed mentions: 2013-04-29 16:35:03 UTC to 2014-03-12 16:40:50 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesDon't forget Obtvse! [0]
[0] https://github.com/natew/obtvse2
In Open for everyoneProbably as good a time as any to mention this, but I've pushed up a work in progress Obtvse 2[0] to my github. With a user account system, live filtering, easy themes via pull requests, and quite a lot of improvements. It will be undergoing many changes over the next few weeks but is worth taking a peek:
[0] https://github.com/natew/obtvse2
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