Maybe Hugo Themes [0] or Netlify might offer a usage metric on their site. Here are two Hugo themes whose code is on Codeberg (a Gitea forge dedicated to FOSS projects) that still have a presence on Github, probably due to FOMO:
- https://codeberg.org/Lednerb/bilberry-hugo-theme
- https://codeberg.org/cinux/hugo-theme-techdoc
Didn't look on (self-hosted or primary) Gitlab, but can imagine there'd be a whole bunch of Hugo themes there too.
I've spent a lot of time looking for good, professional-looking minimalist themes and the pickings have been slim, regardless of platform. Too many theme designers load up their designs with unnecessary elements.
Note to designers: less is more.
Hugo is fun and very extensible. I love that it is a single-file binary that I can download and use without bothering about dependencies.
When I moved away from Jekyll, I built a Hugo theme for my blog as my first for-profit hobby project - https://define.run/lucid-theme/
- Load more button did work but the web scraping script to grab all the data had failed after retrieving only ~10 sites. So there was no more to load, this is already fixed.
- Will change references to "Github stars" etc. to just "Git"
- Will add info about what Hugo actually is above the fold!
- Will remove the stupid size increase on hover
- Academic appears twice, this is actually because the Academic team appears to have 2 different repos and have submitted it to Hugo twice... annoying, but technically correct?
Overall I don't love the design if I am being honest.
Now, even my personal website runs off of mkdocs + material. Such a pleasant software.
