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Why not? I am quite curious, because I, too, host my blog on github: https://bollu.github.io/

I think it's because GitHub started as git hosting and people find it offensive when people use it for other things.

That being said, I'd rather read a blog on GitHub then a blog on Medium, generally speaking. I feel like it helps give a better expectation of the type of material you'll be reading.

> I think it's because GitHub started as git hosting and it's _very_ offensive when people use it for other things.

Why?

People use it for dot files, resumes, science literature, ML data sets, Python notebooks, research journals, website designs, games, assets for website designs and games, speech synthesis, speech synthesis wave files, generated visual media, film scripts, recipes, leaks, crypto, and much more.

I think I dropped a /s.

I'm editing it now.

Me too: https://weberc2.github.io/

I'm also curious what problems this presents and what platform the OP thinks we ought to use and why.

EDIT: Interestingly, I just Googled `"github is not a blog"` and the only hit was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910089 also from the OP 3 months ago where he also didn't support his position.

I think the parent commenter might have an aversion to people ubiquitously storing their ideas on a closed source platform rather than rolling their own.

That’s odd considering Github is just a CDN; you still have to generate the HTML somehow or another.

I agree with you, but its more about the message you send when you reinforce and inadvertedly support a certain way of doing things or sharing information. Some would prefer it was 100% open down to the backend.

I think the obvious issue with that line of thinking is “where does it end?” Do you have to own the hardware, or can you rent it? Does the hardware design have to be open? What about the network? Do you have to own and design that too? Presumably the idea is “as much as possible should be open”, but of course what is possible varies from person to person, and for many of us, a GitHub CDN is the boundary of “what is possible” largely because it is dramatically easier than alrternatives. So I don’t see any coherent argument in favor of the OP’s position.

Exactly! Plus, there's no lock-in. If GitHub pages shuts down tomorrow, I still have all my static files and I can publish them to another platform.

This is the only interpretation I can somewhat support. However, this applies to most blogging platforms, and therefore still seems questionable to me.

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