Jessica, the Phoenix
It's Sunday afternoon, I'm back on my "trying to be a social net human" bullshit, and I realize I haven't maintained a personal website in far too long!

#LazyFedi, what are folks using for Indieweb personal sites these days? Wordpress is a non-starter. I am "happy" to code up my own, but not if there's something that I like floating out there that I'm not yet familiar with!
May 10 at 5:25pmWeb
Show threadCarsonMay 10

@phoenix if you like writing in Markdown, I've really been enjoying Quartz! Lots of powerful customizations, but also it works incredibly out of the box :)

They dogfood the docs here: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

Welcome to Quartz 4

Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites.

Quartz 4
Show threadJessica, the PhoenixMay 10
@cwboden Thank you! I initially pushed Quartz to the bottom of my list because the docs seem to indicate it requires a Github repo, which...no thank you.

If I'm mistaken, that'd be good to know!
Show threadCarsonMay 10

@phoenix the source is on GitHub, but I was able to create a repo mirror on Codeberg and go from there! :)

There's a Dockerfile, so containerization / self-hosting is relatively straightforward. I think they also support a few cloud providers, too, like Vercel / Cloudflare, if you prefer.

It's best for static site generation though, so might not meet your desire for dynamic content. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone has explored a plugin that supports e.g. federated comments 👀

Show threadAda  â€‹May 10

@phoenix depends on the type of personal website you want and whether you want to self-host it.

  • For page generators (CLI + markdown) you have more options than any person could reasonably try
  • For direct WordPress alternatives, you have the same situation (Squarespace, Wix, etc)
  • For local WordPress alternatives, you could go with Ghost (self-hostable, dockerized)

Like, there are so many ways you could go about it, but it all comes down to what you would like to do with it 

Show threadJessica, the PhoenixMay 10
@iamada Probably going some kind of CMS this time. Static site generators are fantastic, but I do miss some of the more dynamic things you can do with database-backed, server-rendered pages.

Ghost is great but I tried that in the past and didn't love it like I wanted to.

Am I doomed to reimplement everything? Our sources say "unfortunately yeah."
Show threadAme the Squirrel May 10
@phoenix hugo. Static site built i. My ci/cd pipeline and pushed out
Show threadbookandswordblogMay 15
@phoenix my sites are Wordpress and a hand-coded static site (HTML + CSS + shell scripts), Neocities is a thing https://neocities.org/ and there are specialized search engines for smallweb sites. Which static site generator makes sense seems really personal.
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