I think I want a new theme
A few years ago, I wanted to know what type of home page layout people preferred for a blog. The options where:
- Full posts
- Title and Excerpt
- Title only
The results looked like this:
Personally, I agree, full posts are best. Especially when there’s a way to truncate a very long post with a “more…” link. For some reason, though, theme makers seem to think that the other two options are preferable. I have never found a theme I liked for Hugo or Zola or Eleventy or any of them that show full posts in a simple way. This is why I keep glancing over at baty.blog, which is currently running on Blot. I like the theme, and I like how Blot works.
Thing is, that’s not my real blog. This blog at baty.net is my real blog. It’s the one people read and subscribe to. I could probably guide people over to baty.blog, but why? I could maybe migrate everything to Blot and run that at baty.net, but that almost guarantees a bunch of broken stuff, so I’m reluctant to do that. Besides, I have a thing for static sites, and while Blot starts out as just Markdown files, it’s still a hosted, rendered service.
Tabi is a nice theme, but it’s a “title and excerpt” thing. What I really want is a new theme that works for all types of posts. The closest I’ve come is with the daily.baty.net blog. I like the way it collects things by day. I like that I can write long and short posts and they both “fit”. I like that I can even write some things that aren’t part of the RSS feed.
Maybe Claude could translate that theme for use with Zola or Hugo. I feel like that would be frustrating, though. Or maybe I’ll do the move-everything-to-blot thing. I dunno.
What I may do is take another look around at themes and see if I can find a suitable one. Recommendations are welcome!