Amazingly open live writer seems to be a very active project that is getting ready for a new release sometime soon!

It is sad that these sort of local apps are a thing of the past. It is all every changing web UIs. One of the blogging platform I use (hashnode) recently rewrote their entire experience and it is now 5 types of broken and they removed a bunch of features. (Their latest company announcement saying that "focusing on blogging was a mistake" also doesn't inspire confidence...)

I'm also hosting a Hugo blog, and using a markdown editor, but the blog posting workflow (edit markdown, run Hugo command from cli, commit and push to GH, webhook on server picks up changes and updates the website) isn't exactly a user friendly experience and even having an editor that automated that all away would be nice.

Hey remember local image management software? Or just owning our data in general?

> Their latest company announcement saying that "focusing on blogging was a mistake" also doesn't inspire confidence

Well, the original quote is:

>> Hashnode started with forums. Discussions were how this community began. We discontinued them years ago to focus on blogging. That turned out to be the wrong call.

Focus is on "discontinuing forums". But yeah, the framing gave me a chuckle.