WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

Post by nusl » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 11:50 AM UTC

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> Shared PHP hosting is a managed service, a VPS is not. Not everyone has the skill set to bridge the gap It has always been very peculiar. You either had very stripped off permissions of what you could do: FTP comes to mind first, and then you still need to understand how Unix permissions work, and then you wish you had SSH; or you get SSH with some stripped off permissions, and then you do need to have the skills t…

Been using shared hosting for 20 years. It's easily easier than VPS. Not sure what you mean by stripped off permissions. Yes, I'm not root, but most VPS providers don't give me root access either (at least not for cheap). SFTP has always worked, and continues to do so. Of course you need to understand UNIX permissions. You also need to understand what a directory is, what a file is, etc. It's not asking too much. I'v…

Post by cxr » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 1:31 PM UTC

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WriteFreely - is AGPL-licensed - supports themes - requires JS (to post) - supports ActivityPub Bearblog: - is MIT-licensed - doesn't support themes - doesn't require JS - uses RSS/Atom for syndication

Bearblog does support themes. You can add custom CSS in your dashboard. https://docs.bearblog.dev/styling/

Post by manuelmoreale » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 3:27 PM UTC

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Bearblog does support themes. You can add custom CSS in your dashboard. https://docs.bearblog.dev/styling/

Thanks for correcting me. I see now that the Bearblog landing page lists "free themes". I'm having trouble, though, making sense of the "no stylesheets" selling point(?) at the top of the page, especially given what you are now saying.

Post by nusl » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 9:24 PM UTC

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That's quite expensive, though not the typical price you'd pay from someplace like Digitalocean. I imagine this is from a host in your local country? Those tend to be more expensive if you're not in a common datacenter region.

$19/year is very reasonable.

Post by Terretta » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 10:30 PM UTC

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From 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.

Yep, that's exactly it! (Creator here.) Would also note it works pretty well for microblogging -- here's an example (with some custom styling)[0]. Small posts with a single paragraph also get federated out as `Note`s instead of `Article`s, which makes them show up on Mastodon pretty nicely. [0]: https://write.as/updates/