This really confused the heck out of me. I thought Bear blog was really cool. I saw the GitHub link and had hopes to self-host. Then saw the note that it’s not possible to self-host and closed the tab and never looked back.

So this whole post on HN is confusing as heck.

Why post the code at all if you can’t self-host? But apparently you can self-host?!?

Well, I guess kudos to those that saw the note and downloaded the code anyways and tried to spin it up.

I had exactly the same reaction when I looked at the GitHub a few years ago. I was like, ok well that's weird, and didn't think about bearblog anymore