Hosting a writefreely.org instance ( k.fe.derate.me )

Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not "cool" enough?

markstos ,

Ghost is working on adding ActivityPub to their self-hostable blog software now.

ruud Mod ,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

Guadin OP ,
@Guadin@k.fe.derate.me avatar

That's funny I just looked at your site and vacancies today. I do not qualify for any of those spots though. You've got an impressive amount of services build up. Keep up the good work!

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

:shrug:

It's trivial to host yourself, and super light on resources. Personally, I don't use it; for blogging I write markdown and rsync it over to the server where Hugo picks it up and turns it into a blog. Now that I think about it, I should probably go shut my WriteFreely down. I have a few pages on it, but I hate web app interfaces, so I didn't put much content in it.

Guadin OP ,
@Guadin@k.fe.derate.me avatar

Thanks, I was also doubting about Hugo but came about writefreely as well.

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

It depends on how you want to write. If you want to use a web interface, WriteFreely is decent. If you like your text editor, Hugo is fantastic.

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