lightweight textbased blog engine which supports comments?

Dieter@be · 2010-06-10 10:38:31

Hi,
I'm looking for a new blog engine.
Requirements: no database, only static plaintext files (to keep in git), little amount of code.
But.. it must also support comments, comments which are also written to plaintext files (after a simple question based "is human" test)

The thing is, there are a gazillion of these engines out there. most of them in ruby or python, some in php. But many of them don't support comments, and the ones who do use an external service like disqus...

gladstone · 2010-07-01 09:52:29

I'm looking for the same thing and have just been reading about sw which is influenced by werc, but I don't think either support comments.

gtklocker · 2010-07-01 09:59:11

shblog

LeafStorm · 2010-07-03 19:21:10

That's...really a pretty narrow category. Most comment-using blog engines are database-backed or Web-service-backed. The only thing I can think of that fits that is pyblosxom (with the comments plugin), and maybe the original blosxom. I have never used either, though.

dkorzhevin · 2010-07-15 17:02:14

gtklocker wrote:

shblog

Bad advice. It is unusable for now. Use nanoblogger - http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/

frio · 2010-07-16 07:18:09

I use jekyll, along with disqus for commenting.

geniuz · 2010-07-16 09:14:10

Has anyone thought of using and XML based engine, I'm actually coding one for my own website to replace the relational database I'm currently using. It's pretty easy to work with and the files are rather structured, if I read the OP's requirements I think XML is best suited for the job.

Dieter@be · 2010-07-30 10:07:05

@frio: I explicitly want to store the comments in textfiles on my webserver, *not* use a webservice.
@geniuz: I don't need xml. a post is just a title, date, tags, author and contents. a simple plaintext file works perfectly for this.

@LeafStorm: thanks, pyblosxom looks pretty cool on first sight, although the project seems kinda dead. Wheat (node.js based) also seems interesting

Last edited by Dieter@be (2010-08-01 10:17:18)

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lightweight textbased blog engine which supports comments?

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