coding.blog is an open-source blog system designed specifically for blogs on programming. Everyone can publish on it, authors will maintain full ownership over their work, all articles will be freely accessible, and no marketing content disguised as a blog article is allowed.
Checkout the website for more information
For Readers:
- Full, free access to all articles
- No ad-disguised-as-an-article
- Ad-free, quality curation
For Authors:
- Full ownership of their work
- Easy-to-work-with toolchain for producing modern and elegant articles
- Extreme customization
- Support by the community
- No concern for spreading the word
Each blogspace on coding.blog is a git repo owned by its author, including some markdown files
and some configuration indicating how those markdown files should be presented. Each repo is bound to some domain aka jacks.coding.blog, and for each publish, coding.blog will pull the repo, build the content into
a JAMStack app, distribute it on its CDNs, and queue the new content for curation.
Readers can get personalized curation lists for a monthly fee if they chose to, the revenue of which will be used to pay the costs of curation and payback the authors whose work people are paying to stay informed about. The JAMStack app will also be equipped with a tipping feature that allows the community to directly support an author for an article.
Note that these are our current plans and they might change as we figure out what will work best towards our outlined goals.
coding.blog began its alpha-testing phase recently. Testing is being conducted with help from select Prospective Creators. Creator accounts (and blogs) are being rolled out in batches so that we maintain full capacity to tend to feedback from each creator properly. If you are eager to help us with testing, join the Prospective Creator's List here and drop me an email on eugene@connect-platform.com.
If you are generally interested, you can join the waiting list for its beta here. If you are a blog-writer who wants to put their blog on coding.blog, you can join the Prospective Creator's list here, though as mentioned above it will be some time before your blog is activated.