Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr"

[ldawson]

Hey everyone, For the past few weeks I've been working on a new lightweight blog engine powered by Codeigniter called "embr". I've stuck the source on Github and would love to hear any feedback or new features to add.

Features:

- Basic image and text posts

- Tag & Category support

- Disqus commenting

- Infinite-scrolling on index pages

- Tumblr style "reblog" is nearly complete (which will allow reflagging of posts across self hosted domains)

Check out the source on Github: https://github.com/laurencedawson/embr

The live demo can be viewed here (username: test@embr.co pass: qwerty) http://blog.laurencedawson.com

Thanks

[eswat]

Good stuff. If I can hassled into moving away from jekyll I’d probably migrate to this first.

I like Tumblr but the data lock-in + shoddy uptime scared me, and this uses CodeIgniter—something I’m familiar with—so I’d probably have an easier time hacking on it than even jekyll!

[liamgooding]

Can't see tags/category showing up on a demo post, but it's looking like a really lightweight solution. Great work!

In your opinion, what would make someone use this over setting up a hosted Tumblr?

[ldawson → liamgooding]

Ah no posts in the demo have tags or categories but its coded up.

Once its all setup I'd like to think being distributed and having full control over your data would be a strong selling point. No more "tumblr is over capacity" messages.

[strick]

Very cool. One question: how does google index the content that hasn't loaded yet? (the infinite-scrolling thing)

[ldawson → strick]

The scroll degrades gracefully to standard pagination if a user doesn't have JS enabled

[EdgarF]

Wow, I have checked it, it looks cool, esp. the logo

[ldawson → EdgarF]

Thanks

[Inversechi]

Awesome Job Laurence :)

[TFSpir]

Awesome job

[thomasdavis]

If I saw this before github/jekyll I would probably use it.

Does the software handle SEO which would be a selling point for me when considering a blogging platform

[ldawson → thomasdavis]

Dang too late!

It's fast, by default everything is cached which I think helps with SEO. Also it generates meta + opengraph tags for each post, hyphens instead of underscores in URLs etc. Not sure what else to add, any suggestions?

[thomasdavis → ldawson]

Get some contact details up or your github page I am quite interested in your project.

[ldawson → thomasdavis]

I've added my email and twitter to the main readme, would be great to hear from you.