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Momentum Mod's main blog website, compiled via Hugo and using the PaperMod theme.

Motivation

The Momentum Mod blog was, for the longest time, hosted on Tumblr. Yes, that Tumblr.

Over the recent years, static site generation has not only become very easy to do, but coupled with GitHub or Cloudflare Pages, it has become extremely easy and extremely cheap (FREE) to host your own blog publicly. This, combined with the facts that:

  1. We were never really using Tumblr to the fullest (social features like reblogging, or followers etc)
  2. Tumblr took forever to load the posts (compared to the sub-1 second load time for the majority of this site)
  3. Tumblr might not last forever, and if it goes/did go down, the entirety of our blog would disappear instantly (except some manual backups on Google Drive)

We're already using Jekyll for the documentation website, but I always wanted to try out Hugo for something, and the blog was a perfect fit. I'm really enjoying it over Jekyll!

Since the blog is very public, and given reason #3 above, there's no reason to not back it up publicly on GitHub, and potentially even allow people to contribute spelling/style fixes, so here we are!

Making a Post

Also known as "Here's how to use it, future me..."

  1. Download Hugo (and Go if you haven't already)
  2. Clone this repo using git clone --recursive as there's the submodule for the theme (or use git submodule update --init if you already have it cloned)
  3. You can then use hugo to serve locally with hugo serve -D
  4. You can then use hugo to create a new page with hugo new posts/name-of-post.md
  5. Pushing to main should deploy a new version on Cloudflare Pages

Contributing

The blog is an official Momentum Mod communications site, so any random articles by random contributors will be unfortunately rejected!

However, any spelling or style-related issues can be fixed by direct contribution via this repository. Simply create a branch off of main and PR it in. It'll get reviewed and (hopefully, eventually) merged, and pushed directly to our blog site!