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Sweet, a roll-your-own Geocities but in Markdown! I'd like it if this approach took off for personal websites/blogs/social media. Maybe share it with some of th

Sweet, a roll-your-own Geocities but in Markdown! I'd like it if this approach took off for personal websites/blogs/social media. Maybe share it with some of those lists of self-hosted alternatives? Like here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted I've actually been working on my own static website builder in Perl too - though it is nowhere near as sophisticated as a whole hosting platform. Being able to feed these beasts directories of text files, hitting enter and watching it do all the work (using your work) is a pleasure all on its own.

symkat 5y ago
Thanks! I would love if this approach took off too. I think it could be pretty good — the friend who runs networking stuff could give people access to hosting and use simple tools, and you get a lot of little hosts! Let me know if there is anything I can do to MarkdownSite to make it easier to host static sites your builder makes. I’ll check out that repo, thank you for the recommendation!
- ungawatkt 5y ago
  Any plans to add a WYSIWYG editor for building sites? I'm the friend who can run network stuff, but a github repo and markdown is beyond the people I'd run it for.
  - symkat 5y ago
    That’s definitely something I want to explore. I saw this[0][1] a while ago and think a setup with it could work out well, but I haven’t tested any of it yet. If you do, definitely let me know if it works out. [0] https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/ [1] https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms
    - ungawatkt 5y ago
      Oh that's neat! If I get a chance to test I'll report back.
    - cweagans 5y ago
      See also https://prose.io/ https://prose.io/
blitzar 5y ago
> a roll-your-own Geocities Does it have a built in Under Construction banner, hit counter, country flags, scrolling text and all the other must have features?

symkat 5y ago

Thanks! I would love if this approach took off too. I think it could be pretty good — the friend who runs networking stuff could give people access to hosting and use simple tools, and you get a lot of little hosts! Let me know if there is anything I can do to MarkdownSite to make it easier to host static sites your builder makes. I’ll check out that repo, thank you for the recommendation!

ungawatkt 5y ago
Any plans to add a WYSIWYG editor for building sites? I'm the friend who can run network stuff, but a github repo and markdown is beyond the people I'd run it for.
- symkat 5y ago
  That’s definitely something I want to explore. I saw this[0][1] a while ago and think a setup with it could work out well, but I haven’t tested any of it yet. If you do, definitely let me know if it works out. [0] https://www.netlifycms.org/ https://www.netlifycms.org/ [1] https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms
  - ungawatkt 5y ago
    Oh that's neat! If I get a chance to test I'll report back.
  - cweagans 5y ago
    See also https://prose.io/ https://prose.io/

blitzar 5y ago

> a roll-your-own Geocities Does it have a built in Under Construction banner, hit counter, country flags, scrolling text and all the other must have features?