Blosxom: A blogging platform, in a single perl file.

The official Blosxom website (according to wikipedia) is http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ .

I'm a long-time blosxom user. I can't stand not having plain-text files for my entries (via Emacs). I use Markdown and Smartypants for HTML styling. The plugin architecture is still unrivaled in blog software, imo. I've used three or four of the hundreds of plugins and written 8 or 9 of my own (specific to my needs). Still loving it.

This was my favorite blogging platform back in the day. It was easy to plug markdown into and I thought they had a good idea for just using the filesystem (no web post editor). Not to put words into any mouths, but they must have figured you already had a favorite text editor (Emacs, Vim, etc.)

I used to use blosxom for my blog, and the one thing that drove me away was comment handling. The comment plugin that was available (at the time) stored all comments concatenated together into one file, which meant that if you wanted to take out one spam comment, you had to open that file and snip something out of the middle. And when I was on blosxom I attracted a lot of spam. I eventually gave up and moved to textpattern (http://textpattern.com/), which has also occasionally irritated me, but not enough to switch a second time. (At least, not until I write my own damn blog-serving software, like a true ubernerd...)

It's news page seems to be down, and the mailing list looks to be mostly overrun with spam. :(

There's pyblosxom for python and _why's hobix for ruby (which is dead). There's also http://www.jekyllrb.com/ for ruby now which is very advanced and very active.

I started my own static blogging system written in python sort of copying what jekyll was at the beginning: http://github.com/mapleoin/pyblee/tree/master It's really much better than any other dynamic blogging system out there. I have: code syntax highlighting, textile markup, tags, RSS, comments via disqus, my favourite templating engine etc.

Blosxom has been around since at least 2003, it's not exactly "news".