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HalfWaveMike's avatar

If you are looking for a free (or cheap with a paid account) hosted, multiuser system that supports Markdown natively with a complete versioning system, I'm surprised you didn't mention (or try?) Github.

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Tom Salzer's avatar

I do use GitHub. It's a bit complicated to try to share with non-technical folks, though. That's the only reason I didn't bring it up. I'm happy to use it for myself!

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HalfWaveMike's avatar

Thanks for the fast reply and the like. I'll admit that my career spans 25 years as a software engineer and another 15 as an engineering manager, so Github is a go-to platform for me. But I consistently hear that the platform is challenging for non-technical folks. If you are interested in providing feedback, I would be happy to pass those pain points on to my colleagues at Github - expanding the reach of the platform beyond the "usual suspects" is a topic of great interest to them. If not here, can you provide an email address where we can discuss this further? (Or I can send one that is OK to share in public).

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Tom Salzer's avatar

Oh sure: reach me at tsalzer@protonmail.com and I'll send you a better address ;-)

For me, it gets a bit squirrely when trying to use Jekyll to render web pages. It should be a 1-2-3 kind of sequence but it never seems to work that way for me. However, my tomsalzer.com "resume" page is pulled from a GitHub repo, and that's been working quite well for several years.

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