Leaflet (leaflet.pub)
Hacker ApprovedRanked 2 of 12 blogging platforms by recommenders
People recommend Leaflet as an easy, good blogging platform that publishes to Bluesky and keeps your content under your own control.
People recommend Leaflet as an easy, good blogging platform that publishes to Bluesky and keeps your content under your own control.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 22
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 96%
Recommended in 11 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 22 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 22 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 11 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Keeps content under your control
“you own your content — even if you use Leaflet as your hosted CMS, published data lives in your PDS where you control it”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “Substack writers, you need a website” “use an open platform that doesn't lock you in”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “Substack writers, you need a website” Easy, well-regarded blogging platform
“Leaflet and pckt are pretty good”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “The Story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8” “leaflet being the easiest”
Comment from 7 Jul 2026 in “CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps” “a great blogging platform”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran” Publishes to Bluesky and Standard.site
“there are several interfaces for both reading and publishing Standard.site records”
Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere” “leaflet blog publish creates bsky post”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “Be Wary of Bluesky”
Other blogging platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other blogging platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 12 blogging platforms, rankedWhat people said
20 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Thanks for Leaflet, earcut and all your other work”
“Leaflet and pckt are pretty good”
“You can add a map snippet using leaflet. It's trivial.”
“I keep 2D with Leaflet as the default”
“posted a top-level comment about building alternatives with leaflet.pub”
“you own your content — even if you use Leaflet as your hosted CMS, published data lives in your PDS where you control it”
“use an open platform that doesn't lock you in”
“you go to https://leaflet.pub/ for Leaflet (one of atproto blogging platforms)”
“leaflet being the easiest”
“a little leaflet.js w/ open street maps would fit the spirit of the site”
“The clustered markers in leaflet are jarring (I like them, but when I show maps I make my wife she finds the transitions nauseating).”
“D3 and Leaflet were such cool tech!”
“leaflet just does not cut it when you want to render 10million plus pins on a global map”
“there are several interfaces for both reading and publishing Standard.site records”
“a great blogging platform”
“leaflet blog publish creates bsky post”
“leaflet 2, while still in alpha, is much nicer to use from CLJS”
“I am impressed by the look of other platforms like Leaflet”
“where setting points and lines is already built in”
“It wouldn't make sense for a blogging platform like (for example) Leaflet to show Bluesky posts the same way it shows blog posts.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.