To all #ruby and #rubyonrails folks: I recently forked ComfrotableMexicanSofa CMS and fully moved it to #turbo and all other goodies to be able to use it for my personal portfolio website. I'm planning a lot of features and improvements (including ActivityPub support) so stay tuned for more!

I'm gonna name it Comfy CMS and you can follow it here: https://github.com/mbajur/comfy

Let me know if you have any questions or ideas!

GitHub - mbajur/comfy: Comfortable Media Surfer is a powerful Ruby on Rails 7.0+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine

Comfortable Media Surfer is a powerful Ruby on Rails 7.0+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine - mbajur/comfy

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@mbajur ComfortableMexicanSofa never convinced me and I always returned to @alchemy_cms to be honest πŸ˜‚
@alexanderadam yeah i know what you mean, for me though is that i always come back from alchemy to plain rails πŸ˜… i gave cmsofa a proper try recently and discovered it’s actually a super capable yet simple tool that deserves some modern touch like turbo, importmaps etc

@mbajur my problem is that the #Rails ecosystem already has a lot of simple #CMS.
#AlchemyCMS has features that my customers know from other professional CMS and therefore expect them to be included as well.

However, a #hotwire revamp for #alchemy would be pretty cool as well as the backend is functional but #hotwirejs would clearly be a modern addition.
Or a migration to #ActiveStorage from #dragonfly.

@alexanderadam for a professional grade solutions, Alchemy is probably a way to go. For people with programming skills that juts wants to run a simple website - i don't think there is any better option than cmsofa. My personal requirements forces me to implement a lot of very specific backend features for my website (a photography portfolio with AP integration) and hacking around Alchemy would be just too much struggle for me :)
@alexanderadam oh, and Alchemy could definitely use some refactoring and redesign but from what i recall - I didn't liked how author approached a guy who was proposing some really good redesign changes when they did a major redesign couple of years ago. No previous nor current design fits me well sadly which always pushes me off that project...not that cmsofa is better in this regard haha
@mbajur @alexanderadam would be very much interested in what you dont like about the current UI/UX. Is it the colors?

@tvdeyen It's very tough to pinpoint as i don't have it installed anywhere to click through but if you're interested in that, i can set it up ;)

I'm pretty sure that, just like @alexanderadam said, "backend looks dated, not terrible but not catchy either" - exactly that. That's a bigger writeup so i have to split that into separate toots. These are not ALL my points but major ones (and forgive if I'm spreading misinformation, it was a long time since i last used it):

@tvdeyen @alexanderadam Actually, you know what...I decided there is much more potential value in me trying to contribute to Alchemy rather than reviving comfy from the dead therefore i will try to port my comfy website to it and see how it goes this time.

Is the ActiveStorage support anywhere close?