I started with Nikola because of familiarity. I use the Python-centric Sphinx tool for documentation in all my work and personal projects. The primary author of Nikola also wrote rst2pdf which integrates into Sphinx if you also want to build your doc as pdf.
Nikola takes the same approach as Sphinx - for example defaulting to rst content and using conf.py for configuration. It also has reasonably complete functionality like blog posts, regular pages, arbitrary content, galleries, comment system integration etc.
Unfortunately the engineering choices over incremental builds as well as some others (eg choosing javascript/lightbox plugin that doesn't support swiping on mobile even though I pointed to one that worked exceptionally well) means I am on the lookout for an alternative. Worst case I'll probably write something that uses the Nikola file structure but makes better choices.
BTW I used Google+ for a while until they frustrated me by making it harder and harder to actually read content, plus not supporting things like RSS feeds and killing Reader. http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/all-change.html
Nikola takes the same approach as Sphinx - for example defaulting to rst content and using conf.py for configuration. It also has reasonably complete functionality like blog posts, regular pages, arbitrary content, galleries, comment system integration etc.
Unfortunately the engineering choices over incremental builds as well as some others (eg choosing javascript/lightbox plugin that doesn't support swiping on mobile even though I pointed to one that worked exceptionally well) means I am on the lookout for an alternative. Worst case I'll probably write something that uses the Nikola file structure but makes better choices.
BTW I used Google+ for a while until they frustrated me by making it harder and harder to actually read content, plus not supporting things like RSS feeds and killing Reader. http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/all-change.html