Jekyll

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “reminded every week that my static site generator "Jekyll" is insecure”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “I don't see much of a difference between `jekyll serve` and the e.g. `service nginx start && service php-fpm start && service mariadb start` that would be needed to run WordPress”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “I taught several absolutely non-technical people to edit the content of Jekyll websites we maintain together”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-12

• “I generally do not like Jekyll. I especially find the template system very limiting”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-12

• “I can't imagine picking Jekyll today. I moved to Hugo after years of suffering long builds. Jekyll's stack complexity meant CI/CD was hard to implement and it just wasn't that fast.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “I used to write raw HTML for my blog because I needed more formatting and structural power than what Markdown could provide for Jekyll”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other template engines”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-31

• “Jekyll's markdown to HTML converter helpfully transforms a series of three normal dashes into an em dash”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-16

• “my blog software (Jekyll) doesn't convert them into real em dashes”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-10

• “I went to Jekyll and I thought I'd miss org but it turns out I don't”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-10

• “I spent a few years with Jekyll, then Hugo, a brief stint with 11ty, and also Quartz. But when I wanted to start from scratch and did a modern, frank, practical analysis for greenfielding from a bunch of markdown files last year, I realised SSGs don't make sense for 99% of sites”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-05

• “now I'm on Jekyll and much happier with my blogging experience”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-04

• “I struggled with Jekyll previously along a number of the dimensions OP lists - complexity in the tool chain when there are weeks or months between new posts”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-31

• “I had a similar situation using Jekyll (before Docker) so I wrote my own SSG”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-08-31

• “decided to avoid 11ty for my personal website and instead went with Jekyll”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-08-28

• “I spent days trying to get everything working (I was trying to use Jekyll locally and find themes, etc) and only later did I realize how utterly simple it could be”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-18

• “Moving back to Jekyll was entirely a move because I wanted to spend more of that time writing”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-05-29