I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.
Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks agoSame boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Depends on what exactly you want to host. If you want commercially-hosted stuff, I’d stick with wordpress or whatever your host offers, but if you’re selfhosting I’d look in !selfhosted@lemmy.world or github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?….
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I suppose what I'm looking for is a lightweight, multi-user CMS, with support for both static pages and a blog. If the blog could support (at least one-way) federation that'd be a bonus. It should ideally be built to work with both desktop and mobile devices (so that I can customise the look rather than build it from scratch).
It's something I could build from scratch but if I can do it then I'm sure lots of more skilled people have done it better!
houseofkeb@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
When I dug into this for myself I landed on Ghost!
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I suppose at some point I should learn Node.js and other JS-related stuff. I speak vanilla JS but I've not really touched frameworks. Anyway, thank you for the recommendation.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Wordpress is all of those except lightweight, though I wouldn’t really say it’s a bear to manage either. I believe they have initial activitypub support as well.
You can check the selfhosted list for alternatives, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that would be a better fit.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I mostly find the design of WP clunky as all hell. I'd like to add some features to my site and doing so feels tremendously awkward. Learning how to implement stuff in their way of doing things doesn't feel worthwhile to me, I guess.