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How to share and document hobby projects today?
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capt bullshot:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on October 03, 2020, 09:53:56 am ---A classical static web page hosted anywhere capable of hosting static html and picture files. This has worked for decades and will work for decades to come. Trend solutions tend to suck while still trendy, and then be completely forgotten in a year or two.

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+1 on this.
Place your content on your own website, and post links to the projects here, and maybe some of the other sites mentioned here.
ebastler:

--- Quote from: Electro Fan on October 03, 2020, 03:16:48 am ---This is a very good site here at EEVblog - good users, content, forum organization, moderation. 

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Yes, absolutely.


--- Quote ---Maybe there is a need or opportunity for Dave to add a few tools to help users better blog projects. 

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No, please. This is not a blogging site, but a forum. It is meant for dialog, not for a stream of daily updates on your project. We have had some of those threads, where one user presents a monologue of post after post, and in my opinion that's a misuse of this (or any) forum. Plus, the linear sequence of posts does not really offer a good way to present comprehensive information on complex projects.

I agree with what others have suggested: Use your own, static website to present content, use this forum (or other relevant platforms) for dialog, and to make people aware of your project.

Personally, I like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) as a tool to generate static websites. It lets you define your sites's content via easily edited Markdown files, the site structure and layout via pre-defined templates, and cosmetic appearance via standard CSS style sheets. Hugo runs locally on your computer and generates a set of standard static HTML pages to upload to a web server. No active components are online, so it's secure without any maintenance, and should be future-proof.
RoGeorge:
www.eevblog.com/forum

github or gitlab .com
hackaday.io
instructables.com

personal blog, personal website (might add some maintenance and/or owning extra costs)
rdl:
My vote is for a static web page. You can register a domain name and have it hosted for pretty cheap, actual fees will obviously depend on the amount of traffic. I use NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I currently have nothing on my site there and it costs only about $12 a year to keep it active just in case I need it.
HattedSquirrel:
Thank you all for your ideas and indeed helpful input. Pretty clearly everybody suggestes a personal static page. It is also good to hear which sites like-minded people visit. I'll try your suggestions and see what works best for me.

So, my new current plan is: I'll continue my efforts in building a personal web page as primary repository. I'll then post some of my projects to the sites you suggested, including this forum. That way I'll get some feedback and discussion going and don't have to worry if one of the external sites goes down, breaks or if my content simply gets lost between all the other contributions. Sounds good to me :)

@DrG Yes, I like the design of Geoff's page, too. Mislead by the grandiouse advertisement claims of "simple and complete customization" of both, suqarespace and wordpress, I thought it must be easy to get something to work with several static pages in different categories and an expanded menu on the left and have them doing all the SEO and stuff. Oh boooooy was I mistaken. :D Three weeks deep into the rabbit hole I slowly come to the realization it could indeed be quicker to learn how to do SEO, social integration and resposiveness on my own than delaing with millions of poorly documented plugins. ;-) (I stopped staying up to date with my HTML skills just before HTML5 was first released in 2008. There's a lot for me to catch up on.)
@eblaster Thanks for the tip, I'll give hugo a try.
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