So I learned about a #Drupal alternative called Brightspot today. Looks interesting. I wanted to take a look and then I read this bullshit hit piece with four golden reasons why you need to dump Drupal for Brightspot.
Ready? I can summarize all four reasons in one go.
1-4) Developers suck. Nobody likes them and OMG Drupal uses #PHP!
Sometimes I wonder if I'm serving clients well by pushing them from WordPress to ExpressionEngine. Then I look at sites I’ve been running for years and I can count on one finger the numbers of times I've had to respond to a critical security issue.
Once a quarter I update EE to the latest version; I don't think any of those updates has changed editorial workflows unexpectedly.
About once a year I make sure the whole environment is up to date.
Open Source Matters and Leading FOSS CMS Communities Address EU Legislators in a Joint Open Letter.
Representatives from Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress communities have come together to address
EU legislators in an open letter which highlights the possible impacts of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on FOSS & Content Management Systems (CMS).
Ok... so... yeah... call me crazy but... I'm thinking of moving this account to a #Firefish (formerly known as #Calckey) instance spun by myself.
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Hear me out. I think I can use Firefish to hold a #fediverse version of the newsletter I've been publishing on substack.
Yes, the formatting will be a bit on the primitive side, but quite readable. (I've already tested some of it.)
By doing this, I can avoid doing a #CMS search. Firefish will be my CMS.
I'm thinking about how I could open registration to other #ActuallyAutistic folks, and other #neurodivergent people, but I haven't decided on the format yet. I just don't want it to turn into the wild wild west.
If you have suggestions about how to move, or anything else, or just want to call me crazy, have at it!
Attempting to modernize & streamline my #WordPress development using Bedrock... And even still, I am constantly handicapped by WordPress's outdated codebase & bizarre limitations.
Whether it's reems of depreciation notices on #PHP 8.1, or the inability to add custom social icons (Mastodon & Discord!) or not being able to upload SVG images to the media manager without more & more plugins... it's just beyond frustrating.
@syntaxseed Lots of limitations and not very usable block editor that is forced on you (instead of parsing and tokenizing rich text to abstract the structure).
And I have yet to see a website where plugins are not an ugly mess of outdated (undeveloped) versions and automatic updates that sometime take website down.
And yet... Is there something better that people are used to? (60% websites using #CMS run #wordpress) #UX
All right nerds, this is your time to shine. I've been thinking about setting up a #blog or three on #Neocities (not stuck on it but it's where I have an account). Are there #StaticSiteGenerators which can handle more than one blog? I would prefer a #CMS style interface but it's fine if it's not available.
I guess what I'm asking is, what is the modern equivalent of Greymatter (RIP), Movable Type, or a self-hosted Wordpress install these days? I mostly want to write and upload easily.
Flat file or SQLite.
Python preferred, PHP tolerated.
No Django, no dependencies on node.js.
Web-based editing.
Form handling included, capable of secure (no CSRF etc.) contact and feedback forms with simple (not perfect) spam prevention.
If anyone knows of any funky, straightforward, easy to docker-up flat file #CMS that can do email contact forms I would love suggestions. I'm taking a website off WordPress that needs a contact form, it's a static 4 page business service site and will never change aside from the occasional address and phone number. #webDesign#webDev
Very stoked I finally made #storyblok work for my @astro website! Bare bones setup is working, after some frustration with the tutorial. I could only make it work because I had some experience connecting a #cms with a #frontend
Up next is figuring out the layout of the blog posts and the homepage of the blog