Where's your website?
Where’s your website?
你的网站在哪里？
🌐 Where’s your website? How to have a proper small web website within minutes; free, lightweight, easy. 🌐 你的网站在哪里？如何在几分钟内拥有一个像样的“小型网络”（small web）网站；免费、轻量、简单。
“Oh I use Instagram.” There’s so many people I’ve come across whose thoughts and creations I would consume with pleasure. Yet most of them don’t have their own blog/website and instead resort to the infinite scrolling slot machines whose plentiful issues and scandals require a distinct essay; 🔜. Aside from all that, these sites are ugly, slow, soulless, and force readers to sign up. No thanks. “哦，我用 Instagram。”我遇到过很多人，我很乐意去阅读他们的想法和创作。然而，他们大多数人并没有自己的博客或网站，而是沉溺于那些无限滚动的“老虎机”应用中。这些平台的问题和丑闻多到需要专门写一篇文章来探讨（敬请期待）。除此之外，这些网站既丑陋、缓慢又缺乏灵魂，还强迫读者注册。不了，谢谢。
Unrealistically but ideally one buys a domain name, codes their own site, and uses Codeberg and/or statichost to host it so that one ensures full control and safety of their content, e.g., easy migration if need be—this is what I do. However, considering how lazy/complacent/inept corporate social media has made the populace, or how scarce spare time is while working full-time, or the frequency of poorly written documentation, then not making one’s own website is understandable. 虽然理想化但最完美的方式是：购买域名，自己编写代码，并使用 Codeberg 或 statichost 进行托管，从而确保对内容拥有完全的控制权和安全性，例如在需要时可以轻松迁移——这就是我所做的方式。然而，考虑到企业社交媒体让大众变得多么懒惰、自满或无能，或者全职工作时空闲时间多么稀缺，又或者糟糕的文档随处可见，那么不去建立自己的网站也是可以理解的。
Below, three solutions. None of them Wix, Medium, nor Substack. Read on if one wishes to trade in their excuses for a small web website that would run on a potato. A cozy cobweb that reflects your personality. 以下是三个解决方案。它们既不是 Wix，也不是 Medium 或 Substack。如果你想抛弃借口，建立一个即使在“土豆”（极低配置的设备）上也能运行的小型网站，请继续阅读。一个能反映你个性的舒适网络角落。
Free hosting options
免费托管选项
With the small web in mind I found these options, sorted according to a fickle preference: Mataroa.blog, Pagecord.com, Bearblog.dev. 考虑到“小型网络”的理念，我找到了以下几个选项，按个人喜好排序：Mataroa.blog、Pagecord.com、Bearblog.dev。
I’m a bit disappointed because without hesitation I would use all of them had I not become accustomed to having full control of aesthetics and functionality of my own website. However, a simple place to write is fine for most. Below are the links to my quick example homepages with the same content, and some first impressions. They all support Markdown syntax; to the non-geeks, this simply means it’s easy to create titles, embed images, create bold fonts, et cetera. 我感到有点遗憾，因为如果我没有习惯于完全掌控自己网站的美学和功能，我会毫不犹豫地使用它们。不过，对于大多数人来说，一个简单的写作空间就足够了。以下是我用相同内容快速建立的示例主页链接，以及一些初步印象。它们都支持 Markdown 语法；对于非技术人员来说，这意味着你可以轻松创建标题、嵌入图片、设置粗体等。
🥇 Mataroa
“Naked blogging platform, for minimalists. Just write.” “极简主义者的纯粹博客平台。只管写。”
- Mataroa gets my preference because it natively supports comments, and while free, the price for premium is commendably hard to beat.
- Mataroa 是我的首选，因为它原生支持评论功能，而且虽然有免费版，但其高级版的定价极具竞争力。
- Annoying is that posts appear on the homepage by default, with large margins, and which cannot be disabled.
- 令人烦恼的是，文章默认会显示在主页上，且边距很大，无法关闭。
🥈 Pagecord
“No lock-in, no AI*, no bloat. Just your words, written your way, on your own corner of the web.” “无锁定、无 AI*、无臃肿。只写你的文字，以你的方式，在你的网络角落。”
- On Pagecord one can natively click embedded images to enlarge them. Another difference is that it’s the only one that renders YouTube videos.
- 在 Pagecord 上，你可以直接点击嵌入的图片进行放大。另一个不同之处在于，它是唯一支持渲染 YouTube 视频的平台。 ± It’s the most feature rich option, but also the least straightforward and slowest of the three. My gripe is that Pagecord’s text editor immediately converts Markdown syntax into its graphical representation within the text editor, which I find intolerable, but I’m sure others would prefer. ± 它是功能最丰富的选项，但也是三者中最不直观、速度最慢的一个。我不满的是，Pagecord 的文本编辑器会立即将 Markdown 语法转换为图形显示，我个人无法忍受，但我相信其他人可能会喜欢。
🥉 Bear
“A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets. Just your words.” “一个注重隐私、简洁、超快的博客平台。没有追踪器、没有 JavaScript、没有样式表。只有你的文字。”
- Bear has the most straightforward user experience and its default homepage design pleases me on par and sometimes more than Pagecord’s. A surprisingly cool feature is that one can easily use an emoji or image as a favicon, and it natively supports LaTeX—yay math!
- Bear 拥有最直观的用户体验，其默认主页设计让我非常满意，有时甚至超过 Pagecord。一个令人惊喜的功能是，你可以轻松使用 Emoji 或图片作为网站图标（favicon），并且它原生支持 LaTeX——数学万岁！
- An indirect feature disadvantage of Bear is that free accounts are hidden from search engines and its own discovery feed.
- Bear 的一个间接缺点是，免费账户会被搜索引擎和其自身的发现流隐藏。
Verdict
结论
One can’t go wrong with any of them. The medals above can be dismissed as ornamental. 无论选择哪一个都不会出错。上面的奖牌仅仅是装饰性的。
Embedding images
嵌入图片
While uploading images to the above websites is supported, understandably a premium feature in Pagecord and Bear—software is not free, consider paying—I do suggest using a dedicated image hosting platform to simply embed its pictures instead. Why? It takes a load of their back and chiropractors make for bad dentists. PixelUnion.eu is what I use, pay for, and strongly recommend. It uses Immich, which supports non-destructive image cropping! 虽然上述网站支持上传图片（在 Pagecord 和 Bear 中这显然是高级功能——软件开发不是免费的，请考虑付费），但我建议使用专门的图床来嵌入图片。为什么？这可以减轻它们的负担。我使用并强烈推荐 PixelUnion.eu，我为此付费。它使用 Immich，支持非破坏性图片裁剪！
How to embed an image hosted on PixelUnion? Create a public album, surf to its shared link yourself, left click on an image to open it, and now right click the image to select Copy Image Link.
如何嵌入托管在 PixelUnion 上的图片？创建一个公开相册，访问其共享链接，左键点击图片打开，然后右键点击图片选择“复制图片链接”（Copy Image Link）。
Use the following Markdown syntax in the blog text editor:
在博客文本编辑器中使用以下 Markdown 语法：
“Not worth sharing.” Nonsense. For the umpteenth time—unless posting food pics, then stay at Instagram—let this exquisite simulation of fireflies change your perspective: https://ncase.me/fireflies. Your ideas matter. Just make something. “不值得分享。”胡说八道。我再说一遍——除非你是发食物照片（那就留在 Instagram 吧）——否则让这个精致的萤火虫模拟动画来改变你的看法吧：https://ncase.me/fireflies。你的想法很重要。去创造点什么吧。