We've come full circle
If I remember correctly earliest version of Apache also did this (though it used S/FTP instead of dropbox and .html instead of .md)
Current versions of Apache also do this.
Blot turns a folder into a website
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#23This makes me think of the early/mid-2000s & https://blosxom.sourceforge.net. Blosxom had this delightful concept of file extensions as "flavours." For example, you could have a ".rss" flavour that would present that hierarchy of your site as an RSS feed if you added ".rss" to the URL. Brilliant!
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#24Love the simplicity! Looks like this shouldn't need a server, but instead could just be a static site generator. Am I missing something?
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#25Would be cool if it could be self hosted
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#26If there only was a Docker image...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that literally just a web server?
Only if the web server transparently converts non-HTML sources (Markdown, Word docs, Google docs, LaTeX, image galleries) into HTML on the fly.
Especially older servers have quite a lot of those types of capabilities, rendering directories to fancy indexes, processing input files in various ways.
Like they'd even spawn arbitary processes for you (w/ CGI).
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#28Love the simplicity! Looks like this shouldn't need a server, but instead could just be a static site generator. Am I missing something?
How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#29Cool idea. This is a project I’ve done that feels in a similar vein. https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html
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#30Love the simplicity! Looks like this shouldn't need a server, but instead could just be a static site generator. Am I missing something?
Looks to be principally a turnkey service that shelters consumers from the details of web servers and static site generators.