alt Hacker NewsFrom their GitHub: Obviously you could self host it (and I guess plenty have figured out how to and even created competitors with the code if they are making this change?), but they discourage hobbyists from trying with this unhelpful statement. So what was the point of even being open source? Their whole statement kind of comes off as disingenuous to me because of this.
"Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn't possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog."
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It reads perfectly clear. It is designed to be a platform and mit license makes it too easy for other people to create competing services and they don’t want that.
Maybe it was a mistake on their part to make it initially open source or it is bad that there are people looking to steal other people’s work
This really confused the heck out of me. I thought Bear blog was really cool. I saw the GitHub link and had hopes to self-host. Then saw the note that it’s not possible to self-host and closed the tab and never looked back.
So this whole post on HN is confusing as heck.
Why post the code at all if you can’t self-host? But apparently you can self-host?!?
Well, I guess kudos to those that saw the note and downloaded the code anyways and tried to spin it up.
You shouldn't look a gift horse in its mouth. Anything being open-source does not entitle you to be able to easily run it yourself. You are given the source as-is with no warranty. It is up to you to be competent enough to do anything with it and not the responsibility of the authors of the code.
If this doesn't suit you (as in, if this is a project you can't run, let alone maintain yourself), then you should consider paying someone (preferably the authors) to do so. I know this is novel to many people here who are used to exploiting the free labour of open-source maintainers, but it's been a decider in tech choices I make lately.
'Can I/anyone else at the company debug an issue and create a bugfix for this cool new open-source tech I want to introduce?' If no, then we are not qualified to run it without external help.
What I find amusing is that it's built on top of Django and of course uses a few other dependencies[0], and without them the project wouldn't even exist...
0. https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/master/requi...