**Tom Elliott** @paregorios · 2018-05-06T12:38:05Z

Tom Elliott @paregorios

It took about 45 minutes, and about 15 minutes of content metadata tweaking (legacy draft tags previously imported from blogger), but I successfully upgraded my blog generator to #nikola 8.0.0b1

blog: https://paregorios.org

nikola: https://getnikola.com/

#UpgradingNikola: https://getnikola.com/blog/upgrading-to-nikola-v8.html

May 06, 2018, 12:38 · 0 · 0

**electricarchaeo** @electricarchaeo@scholar.social · May 07, 2018, 00:27

**electricarchaeo** @electricarchaeo@scholar.social · May 07, 2018, 00:27

@paregorios
So... Why Nikola?

**Tom Elliott** @paregorios · May 07, 2018, 10:25

**Tom Elliott** @paregorios · May 07, 2018, 10:25

@electricarchaeo

static site generation (no moving parts on the server other than apache), author in markdown (et al.), import past posts from blogger dump, FOSS, python, extensible, command-line interface