autost: a cohost-compatible archive and blog engine

…and hopefully feed reader?

want to archive your chosts on your website but have too many for the cohost web component? want something like cohost-dl except you can keep posting?

autost is my take on that. you can see what it looks like on shuppy.org:

it’s pretty much a static site generator that can import chosts. some features:

• perfect html rendering of your chosts and css crimes
  (css things like bounce and spin work too, but not yet 100%)
• include and exclude specific tags or chosts in your archive
• tag your archived chosts without editing them on cohost
• automatically rename and add tags based on the existing tags
• make new posts with mostly-cohost-compatible markdown
  (there’s even a post composer with live preview! but it’s very much a wip)

i’ve only had a couple weeks to work on this, so it’s not the most polished, and for now you need a bit of command line knowledge to get it going.

but my goal here is to make a blog engine with the same posting and reading experience as cohost, where you can follow people with rss/atom feeds, see their posts on a chronological timeline, and share their posts on yours.

does that vibe with anyone? should i keep working on this? let me know!