Essentially and initially, the internet is used to store information. This information is then stored on a website and displayed using a Markup language like HTML. Thereafter, people started writing about a bunch of things on their own personal website. These websites are known as blogs.
Before the dawn of big social media like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, there was an abundance of blogs scattered around the internet. Blogs are not social media because they’re not centralized like mainstream social media. Back then, to run a blog meant to run your own website; and it required you to have your own domain and server, which is not cheap. Despite all of that, people were keen to create their own blog, because it offers them freedom to personalize and share thoughts or ideas.
Nowadays, it’s easy to create and deploy your own blog. Without any fee. Initially, the most dominant place to create your own blog was a service by Blogger, which was owned by Google way back in 2003. Blogger was the most accessible service when it comes to making your own blog. You don’t need to have prior experience in programming and web development. Blogger offers you an extensive amount of presets for customization. It was great for entry-level users like writers. However, not so much for people who cared for their privacy and needs of in-depth customization.
Here comes the Bear!
Another problem when it comes to making your own blog or making it with large services such as WordPress is that they are full of bloats. Filled with unnecessary features. This has been a problem throughout the web development community; the concern of adding unnecessary features to the website. For example, using an excessive amount of JavaScript which slows down the website. People are starting to consider the idea of accessibility for their websites. They want people using different kinds of devices with different kinds of OS (operating systems) to be able to access the blog/website without any kind of error. Because some devices don’t have the support for features that modern websites offer, like JavaScript.
But it doesn’t mean that your website should be - although plain, still readable like the Motherfucking Website. You can still design your blog without overtly over-designing it. There are a lot of services that do just that, but my go-to has got to be Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ.
Bear, or as I like to call it, “Bearblog” is a service that lets you build and deploy your own minimalistic blog easily. Here’s the slogan:
A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets. Just your words.
I believe Bearblog tries to bring back the old and pure idea of blogging. Shun the bloat of the current web, embrace the bear necessities. The whole idea can be underlined by its features:
- Looks great on any device
- Tiny (~2.7kb), optimized, and awesome pages
- No trackers, ads, or scripts
- Seconds to sign up
- Built to last forever
- Connect your custom domain
- Free themes
- RSS & Atom feeds
How to make your blog using Bear
Using Bear, you can create your own blog in under 10 minutes! Let me show you how:
- You need to go to Bearblog and create an account.
- After that, you can choose a domain, or the one you already have. Enter the title of the site, and your favicon (the website’s icon on the browser tab). Next, you can add texts for the Homepage below.
- On the navbar, click on Posts. Here you can click the new post button to create a new post.
- Bear uses Markdown for formatting. You can then choose whether to save your post as a draft, preview it, or post it.
- Navigating back to the navbar, you can click Themes to customize your blog.
- After you’re done setting up. You can visit your blog by entering the domain. Check out our cooking blog while you’re at it wink.
Well, there you go! Do you see how easy it is?
An Amazing Addition
If you’re not sure about making your own blog or want to people to discover your blog — well, fear not! Bear has a discover feature where you can read people’s writing. The only way you can be featured in this page, is that your blog needs to be suitable (you will be notified on your email). Oh, you can also upvote the articles.
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