How about disroot hosting "Writefreely" #761

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opened 2024-01-17 13:10:50 +01:00 by Ghost · 4 comments

Ghost commented

2024-01-17 13:10:50 +01:00

I have a suggestion. It would be nice to see disroot hosting a federated blog of its own. Writefreely would be a welcome addition to have. I personally am fond of writing on tech, travelling, home hacks etc.

Main Project: https://writefreely.org/

Shadowstreik commented

2024-01-17 14:13:33 +01:00

This appears very promising being FOSS and such. My only criticism is that I've looked at some of the instances and there is no custom theming on any of them. I wouldn't want a blog without custom theming, myself.

Ghost commented

2024-01-17 16:46:53 +01:00

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https://discuss.write.as/t/themes/952

Therefore disroot can offer a customized theme based on beetroot.

@Shadowstreik While it's true that instances that offer Writefreely don't offer the option to customize themes, but this is totally possible. There was a discussion on customizing themes in Writefreely, https://discuss.write.as/t/themes/952 Therefore disroot can offer a customized theme based on beetroot.

muppeth commented

2024-01-17 21:45:30 +01:00

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HI there. Thanks for the request. Being able to host websites by disrooters been at least on my radar for a while. I did like a lot plume as it seemed like allowing more customization in terms of looks to what writefreely does. But plume is afaik not under development. So yeah writefreely looks to be the only solution. I will bring it up on next meeting to see how the team feels like it.

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Ghost commented

2024-01-18 10:59:15 +01:00

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(1) Implement "Writefreely" now and let the developers enhance it's functionality in the future

(2) Wait for "Bonfire" which will eventually introduce blogging with much needed features.

If i am not mistaken, there is an experiment going on for a blogging service in "Bonfire". Here's the link:

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/website-blog

Regards.

Hello, blogging offered by disroot would be a great initiative. I did a research myself and the only viable option at the moment seems to be "Writefreely". However, the future seems bright as the developers are active, the project is active unlike "Plume". So we have 2 options: (1) Implement "Writefreely" now and let the developers enhance it's functionality in the future OR (2) Wait for "Bonfire" which will eventually introduce blogging with much needed features. If i am not mistaken, there is an experiment going on for a blogging service in "Bonfire". Here's the link: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/website-blog Regards.