Bear Blog
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Bear Blog is a blog hosting service and open source platform describing itself as “no-nonsense”.
Overview
- By default every blog lives on a subdomain. Users have to upgrade to the paid plan ($6/month or $59/year as of 2024-07-31) to be able to bring their own personal domain.
- It has longevity as a stated goal.
- 2024-07-12 : What I’m doing right now (archived):
Bear is growing by the day, and my focus for the next few months is to ensure the longevity of the platform. I would love to see this platform and the blogs on it survive for the next 100 years.
- 2022-10-25 : Building software to last forever (archived)
- 2024-07-12 : What I’m doing right now (archived):
- It comes with build-in discovery for hosted blogs.
- See the Discovery feed (archived snapshot).
- Also made available in RSS format by added
feed/to the end of the link path. - For a little more about spam prevention and discovery, see: 2024-07-19 : Upcoming changes to the discovery feed (archived)
- Only limited support for IndieWeb building blocks. The templates cannot be modified and do not include any microformats. The paid plan will allow adding elements to the
<head>of the page, which would allow adding externally hosted services for Webmentions and IndieAuth.
- It is written in Python with the source code available on GitHub: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/
IndieWeb Examples
Martijn van der Ven has used the free version of Bear Blog to document some public thoughts at times, find it at https://zegnat.bearblog.dev/- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)