One way to promote the #Fediverse is by making the different fediverse software support custom profile skins and themes. This can potentially create an ecosystem of skin and theme creators, which in turn will make more people talk about it.

I differentiate between a skin and a theme because:
* A “skin” is like changing the CSS of the default layout. Adding an image here and there, new icons, and colours and gradients.
* While a “theme” can change the layout itself. The widgets available, or shuffle them around. Possible even a way to add custom ones (careful with this though).

Remember the original #CMS in late 90s to 2010? #PHPnuke #PostNuke #Xaraya etc.?

You can add, remove, and move widgets around. Use custom ones easily. Change colours easily. Change the widths, the columns, and so on. That is a “theme”. There were even third-party frontend packages a developer can use so they don't have to worry much about it.

Skinning is the simplest method; and this was what made #Plurk popular when it launched in May 2008 (yes, Plurk is as old as the Fediverse network). There was a Plurk skin ecosystem, which in turn increased the number of people talking about Plurk.

Apply the theming feature from the early CMS brands with Plurk's user-level skinning feature, and we create a playground for the users.

#Misskey and forks already had a good start with their user-level skinning feature (and user-level plugins at that). We just need to see it in the other popular fediverse software.

Make it easier to understand. Write guidelines in layman's terms, not dev terms, and maybe, just maybe, we can spark the interest of new users. Who doesn't want a customisable user profile?

Hab grade ein neues CMS im Test ;D #Flatpress heisst es, das Backend erinnert mich serh an das alte gute #PHPNuke ;D Das wird wohl hier keiner mehr kennen oder ?

#flatpress

Who remembers #PHPNuke? This was weeeell before #LiveJournal even existed, and was the only option at the time if you desired a blog of any kind. I'm talking about the year 2000 here, the #Y2K, or even possibly earlier.

Gosh this is bringing on precious nostalgia for me ;..;

My first website started with a service called #Homestead, which was much like GeoCities but kind of before even that became big and popular (this being the late 90s). I'm a very old school system administrator, having leased my very first dedicated server in the early 2000s.

Does anyone else have similar stories to this?

Gibts eigentlich noch Seiten, die PHPNuke nutzen ? PHPNuke war früher, ja sagen mal für 15 Jahren oder mehr das CMS überhaupt, bevor #wordpress , #Joomla und Co. den Rang ablief ;D

#phpnuke #wordpress #cms