Show HN: Aegea, a smart blogging engine
Aegea is a blogging engine



  








  
  
    
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      The author controls theirblog right in the browser,with a password
      
      
    
    Control in the browser, behind password
  

  
  
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  An engine is a program that runs on the blogger’s website. It provides the writing tools to the author, shows the posts to the readers and lets them write comments.

  Medium.com is simpler, but they can shut down and take all your posts offline. With an engine, the blog runs on your own website and you have access to the files and the database.






  Write
  Write whenever you have an idea. All features are accessible on a phone. If a post requires thoughtful editing, use Drafts to work on it as much as needed:

  
  
    
      
      	
    
    
    
      
      	
    
  

  
  	
    Typography improves automatically:
    
      In editor
      The song "Hotel "California""- it's great!
    
    
      As published
      The song “Quotes and apostrophes adjust according to depthHotel ‘California’” —Hyphens become dashesand don’t wrapit’s great!

            

    
  

  
  
    The design is very text-focused. The line heights, spacings, margins and heading sizes are meticulously adjusted.
    The mood of the text remains neutral: the layout will work well for a travel report, a scientific paper or a love story.
  






  Show
  Drag a bunch of photos onto the editor, add captions and publish an article:

	

  
  
    
      
      Pictures
      Put pictures one afteranother or makea flickable gallery
    
    
      
      Video
      A YouTube or Vimeolink automaticallyturns into a video
    
    
      
      Music
      Drag an audio fileonto the editor or linkfrom an external server
    
    
      
      Code
      Eighteen programming languages get automatic syntax highlighting

    
  






  Discuss
  The number of new comments appears in the top right corner, so you don’t need to go through each note to make sure you’ve read them all:

  
    Sharing buttons include Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Pinterest, and VK
    
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      Author in power
      Enable comments only when they add value. Or only in fresh posts. Highlight the best and remove the worst in one click. Changed your mind? There’s Undo.

    
    	
      Connected
      Readers can subscribe to any discussion by email or RSS. When you reply to a comment, its author gets an email notification in any case.

    
  






  Organize
  
     Aegea helps professionals talk about their business: show the work, publish lessons and tutorials. Authors connect the posts with tags, make tables of contents of important topics, set arbitrary URLs for the posts.
     Organise or reorganise your posts at any time. If you change URLs, the old ones get redirects automatically. When the posts are not organised well, the full-text search will help.
  

		
    
      
      movies

      travel

      links

      design

      cars

      weather

      sports

      typography

      law

      photo

      music

      food

      humour

      observations

      dog

      quotes

      wine

      thoughts

      wedding

      work

      talks

      partnership

      nature

      investment

      programming

      politics

      lessons

    
    
    
      Typography
      
      
    
  






  Install
  
    To install Aegea, you must have your own website with a database. You will need to be able to upload the scripts to the server. You can ask a friend.
    You need to do this only once. Then, no special knowledge is needed to manage your blog: everything is done right in the browser.
  

  
    
			
      
      Upload the packageto the server
    
    
    
      Fill out the installerform
      Install Aegea
      
      
    
    
    
      “While WordPress boasts its ‘famous five-minute setup’, one minute was enough for Aegea”
      Alex Lukyanov, blogger
    
    
    
  


    