Bear Blog
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Bear Blog is a blog hosting service and open source[1] platform describing itself as “no-nonsense,” with lightweight pages and support for custom domains. It is used by some community members for their personal sites.
Overview
- By default every blog lives on a subdomain. Users have to upgrade to the paid plan ($6/month or $59/year as of 2024-07-31) to be able to bring their own personal domain.
- It comes with build-in discovery for hosted blogs.
- See the Discovery feed (archived snapshot).
- Also made available in RSS format by added
feed/to the end of the link path. - For a little more about spam prevention and discovery, see: 2024-07-19 : Upcoming changes to the discovery feed (archived)
- Only limited support for IndieWeb building blocks. The templates cannot be modified and do not include any microformats. The paid plan will allow adding elements to the
<head>of the page, which would allow adding externally hosted services for Webmentions and IndieAuth.
- It is written in Python with the source code available on GitHub: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/
IndieWeb Friendly
- The roadmap has an issue under consideration to support a blog API and Micropub was mentioned as an option: https://bear.nolt.io/2
- Built with longevity in mind[3]
IndieWeb Examples
Martijn van der Ven
Martijn van der Ven has used the free version of Bear Blog to document some public thoughts at times, find it at https://zegnat.bearblog.dev/
Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Blogposts
- 2026-02-11 : Bearblog Resource List
Podcast Episodes
- 2026-05-25 Wonders of Web Weaving #3: Herman (bearblog.dev):
capjamesg interviews Herman, the creator of Bear Blog
See Also
References
- ↑ 2025-09-01 : Bear is now source-available
- ↑ 2024-07-12 : What I’m doing right now (archived)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 2022-10-25 : Building software to last forever (archived)