Been helping my friend test their blog server project and figured some of you might find it useful. It’s called BDServer and it’s basically what blog engine written in pure python.

The cool part is it’s just Python files - no compilation, no massive dependencies and the best part is 0 JavaScript. Every aspect is customizable via plugins system. My friend runs their blog on it https://blenderdumbass.org/ and I’ve been running mine at https://blog.madiator.com/ (in my case I made some own plugins as not liked orginal design)

Some features included:

• Built-in analytics that don’t phone home to Google
• Markdown files for posts (but you can embed HTML if needed)
• Plugin system so you can add weird features without breaking updates
• Currently we working on fully adding Activity Pub support

Source is on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/BDServer

License: AGPL version 3 or later

We hang out on Matrix if anyone wants to chat about it or needs help: https://matrix.to/#/#bdserver:tchncs.de