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> Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs

It helps that Jekyll, one such static blog, was also pushed by GitHub back in the day.



Was Jekyll ever that popular though?


I can’t provide usage numbers, but it used to be the happy path for using GitHub Pages. I suppose static site generation was fairly niche so “popular” may not be the right word. I think Jekyll was a big fish in a little pond, however.


It certainly populated the "Mark Town to static HTML" blogging approach and created the room for its successors.




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