bocpress extends mataroa
The more blogging platforms, the better. Following up mataroa versus bear, allow me to present yet another blogging platform I found: J. J.'s BocPress. It's a fork of Theodore's Mataroa that I found in the "Can I have my own mataroa-like platform?" FAQ answer on Mataroa's homepage. According to BocPress' own homepage FAQ, it supports the following features which Mataroa doesn't to my knowledge:
- RSL: Really Simple Licensing, which "lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content" if that suits your fancy
- Custom CSS using a subset of allowed properties, as outlined in the Custom CSS documentation page
- Tags that can be added when creating or editing a post
- Support for strikethrough markdown notation via markdown-it-py
- Support for LaTeX-style math expressions per this pull request
- Graphviz support for diagrams
BocPress seems like a great middle ground between Mataroa and Bear Blog. It retains the former's minimalism, Creative Commons open-source licensing, and mostly free feature set. J. J. then added in CSS theming, tags, and more post features to bring it closer to the latter. Those updates make me wonder how much more different BocPress blogs can look from one another compared to Mataroa. Maybe this sneak peek is enough incentive for you to try it out and give us a taste of the design possibilities?
P.S. If you're at all interested in how migrating from Bear Blog to Mataroa works, check out Matt Bee's Migrating from bearblog to mataroa.