Jessica, the PhoenixMay 10
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!
Show threadAda  ​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 Phoenix
@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."
May 10 at 6:00pmWeb