On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 01:21:03 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Github might be better because it does automatic syntax highlighting, no need to format code yourself.
I thought about Github because it would offer one advantage to tumblr: it could be owned by the dlang Github account. But, while Github pages can be a blogging platform, tumblr is specifically designed to be a blogging platform, and that means several nice features that we get for with no extra work from anyone in the community. In addition to the examples I listed in my original post, one other great feature I discovered today is that tumblr provides a guest post feature where any tumblr user can submit a post to be reviewed, and with a click of a button, it can be posted on the blog with attribution.
Also, I can just include a simple JS library for the same auto-highlighting functionality.
Not sure what commenting functionality either provides, that should be there too, though dealing with spam can be a pain without proper filters.
Disqus can be added quite easily to either, but I don't think that's something we actually want to do. IMO let's keep discussion on here, HN, and reddit, where there are mechanisms in place for getting rid of spam.
