WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
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Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#2Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#3Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Explain how they still survive and are the only viable option for anyone in the day and age where $5 VPSes are a thing.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#4From what I understand, Mastodon is to Twitter as WriteFreely is to WordPress.com/Medium/Blogger/etc. Fediverse-aware, open-source, with a flagship SaaS hosted instance available at https://write.as. If microblogging hadn't fried my brain and I was interested in spinning up a longform blog, this is the software I would choose.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#5Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Explain how they still survive and are the only viable option for anyone in the day and age where $5 VPSes are a thing.
Tens of millions of people want to host a WordPress site and very few of them want to deal with setting up a database, editing config files, securing a server. Most of them have no idea what that stuff means.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#6Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Explain how they still survive and are the only viable option for anyone in the day and age where $5 VPSes are a thing.
Shared PHP hosting is a managed service, a VPS is not. Not everyone has the skill set to bridge the gap, and it’s not really economical to hire to fill the gap to support a single site (but it is to support hundreds of sites in a shared hosting environment).
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#7Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Genuine question, is shared hosting still the go-to option for many HN readers when setting up a personal site?
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#8Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Then there's the hosted service at write.as.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#9From what I understand, Mastodon is to Twitter as WriteFreely is to WordPress.com/Medium/Blogger/etc. Fediverse-aware, open-source, with a flagship SaaS hosted instance available at https://write.as . If microblogging hadn't fried my brain and I was interested in spinning up a longform blog, this is the software I would choose.
It also speaks ActivityPub, and can thus talk to Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. servers.
Re: WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web
#10Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Explain how they still survive and are the only viable option for anyone in the day and age where $5 VPSes are a thing.
CPanel simplicity vs a blank slate CLI that doesn't do anything before an endless list of "sudo xyz" commands are run.