# Leaflet (leaflet.pub)

22 Hacker News commenters recommended Leaflet (leaflet.pub) and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Leaflet as an easy, good blogging platform that publishes to Bluesky and keeps your content under your own control.

## Why people recommend it

- Keeps content under your control (2 comments): "you own your content — even if you use Leaflet as your hosted CMS, published data lives in your PDS where you control it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088808)) "use an open platform that doesn't lock you in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087234))
- Easy, well-regarded blogging platform (3 comments): "Leaflet and pckt are pretty good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775107)) "leaflet being the easiest" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817284)) "a great blogging platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462124))
- Publishes to Bluesky and Standard.site (2 comments): "there are several interfaces for both reading and publishing Standard.site records" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491878)) "leaflet blog publish creates bsky post" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106806))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Substack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/substack.md): 87 recommend
- [Ghost CMS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghost.md): 21 recommend
- [Bear Blog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bear-blog.md): 18 recommend
- [TextLog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/textlog.md): 16 recommend
- [Medium](https://hackerapproved.com/p/medium.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Leaflet (leaflet.pub)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/leaflet/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).