ok i remembered this and i am gonna make it public so more people can see it:
i am looking for website software™. i have tried quite a few and none of them really fit all my needs. i'm keen to hear recommendations
i have two websites:
- personal website, blog exists but is not the primary focus of the site
- kzk website, many pages, avatar info, resource (uv map etc) downloads, & lore repository, more often updated blog, & at least 2 people need to be able to work on the site with minimal fuss
i expect that it might take different things to accomplish these two use cases, but it'd be cool if i could do both with the same thing
i use NFSN for hosting, so it needs to be able to install / run / whatever there
i am currently using kiki - i very much like it, however, i'm running into the "too much friction in my update-the-site process for me to remember to do the thing" problem again. for the kinzart site, umbra also needs to be able to log in and edit the site - kiki's process is relatively simple, but he's not quite as much of a computer toucher as i am and i would like to make the process as painless as possible for him. (kiki does have a wiki mode that might work here, but i haven't gotten to test it myself yet. it's on the ever-growing burnout to-do list)
i have used, in no particular order:
- jekyll & 11ty: SSGs in general are nice and all but the update-the-site process is enough of a pain that i lose interest in using them very quickly. also not a fan of having to install four zillion extra packages. especially not from npm anymore lmao
- publii: honestly fine but i entirely killed my poor install trying to port the wip kzk site into it due to the sheer size of the thing. not entirely sure how that happened. couple other UI/UX prickles i had that i can't recall precisely right now
- wordpress: it's wordpress. it functions. i would rather not use it. too bloated, too mullenweg. also feck the gutenberg editor
- grav: felt like it was actively fighting me the whole time i was using it
i know there are more things out there, there has to be something that might work better than what we have going on right now
i have looked into ghost, but iirc the newer version doesn't work with nfsn's database system? unless that changed? and i am not very interested in swapping hosts at the moment
joomla and drupal exist but they both seem very overkill for what i'm doing, and also refused to install properly on nfsn when i tried lmao
movable type exists but it's also paid license for a zillion dollars that i do not have nor would spend on that for my purposes
classicpress exists but, still, would like to avoid wordpress
i'm aware of bookstack and might be able to bang that into shape, but it's gonna be a while before i have the energy to try
also a reiteration: i would rather not use another SSG a la jekyll / hugo / 11ty, unless the usage process is much less of a pain in the arse
and a specific note: if i had the energy to write my own thing, or code the whole sites from scratch, i would. i do not, i can not, please don't be That Guy in the replies
what yall got to recommend
#indieweb #webdev
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If you liked The Colonization of Confidence., my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb
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"html": "<p>Ever wanted to inject your own HTML into the markdown rendering of your 11ty posts? Me too! I wrote a post about it:<br /><a href=\"https://jessieheald.com/blog/adding-custom-rendering-to-html-elements-in-11ty/\"><span>https://</span><span>jessieheald.com/blog/adding-cu</span><span>stom-rendering-to-html-elements-in-11ty/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/SSG\">#<span>SSG</span></a> <a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/JavaScript\">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/Markdown\">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href=\"https://defcon.social/tags/programming\">#<span>programming</span></a></p>",
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New Blogroll Post
“Lean of Faith” by skaup
« I recently learnt about the Lean language at an event at IISC. It's a language used not just for writing programs but proving that they are correct. »
#Technical #Maths #Functional-programming #blog #indieweb
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Nach langem Aufschieben hab ich jetzt endlich meine eigene Seite auf Neocities gebaut. Für wen das kein Begriff ist: Das ist ein kostenloser Hoster / Soziales Netz für kleine Indie-Webseiten.
Macht unfassbaren Spaß sich durch den Katalog zu klicken und sich die ganzen Seiten anzusehen.
Hier meine Seite (Warnung: Extremer Schwachsinn)
https://schike.neocities.org
#indieweb #neocities
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“Articles on Chandrayaan 1, India’s first Moon mission” by Jatan
« * Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level. And I think it's something that precludes the use of caching, but there are probably many of you with more knowledge than I have and who may know what can be done
🧵⤵️
#IndieWeb #WebDev #PersonalSite
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"html": "<p>I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site\u2014not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level. And I think it's something that precludes the use of caching, but there are probably many of you with more knowledge than I have and who may know what can be done</p><p>\ud83e\uddf5\u2935\ufe0f</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.art/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.art/tags/PersonalSite\">#<span>PersonalSite</span></a></p>",
"text": "I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site\u2014not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level. And I think it's something that precludes the use of caching, but there are probably many of you with more knowledge than I have and who may know what can be done\n\n\ud83e\uddf5\u2935\ufe0f\n\n#IndieWeb #WebDev #PersonalSite"
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Things I want to do with my website (part 1): https://taonaw.com/2026/04/23/things-i-want-to-do.html
I want to do more with my website. I play 2 plus hours of Linux games daily, but blog about them once a month, maybe. Why? Because one game deserves 5 posts, not a paragraph. I kind of have a solution, just not the time. A familiar pattern, I know
#blogging #website #indieweb #games #gaming
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"html": "<p>Things I want to do with my website (part 1): <a href=\"https://taonaw.com/2026/04/23/things-i-want-to-do.html\"><span>https://</span><span>taonaw.com/2026/04/23/things-i</span><span>-want-to-do.html</span></a></p><p>I want to do more with my website. I play 2 plus hours of Linux games daily, but blog about them once a month, maybe. Why? Because one game deserves 5 posts, not a paragraph. I kind of have a solution, just not the time. A familiar pattern, I know</p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/games\">#<span>games</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/gaming\">#<span>gaming</span></a></p>",
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@brine Visually very pleasing web app. It is fun to read stuff on you page. Would you consider also publishing the feed list as OPML?
Asking because I try to solve the discover problem on the RSS / OPML side for feed readers with https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-feed-index/ and I'm looking for #indieweb sites publishing OPML sources.
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://4d2.social/@brine\">@<span>brine</span></a></span> Visually very pleasing web app. It is fun to read stuff on you page. Would you consider also publishing the feed list as OPML?</p><p>Asking because I try to solve the discover problem on the RSS / OPML side for feed readers with <a href=\"https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-feed-index/\"><span>https://</span><span>lwindolf.github.io/rss-feed-in</span><span>dex/</span></a> and I'm looking for <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> sites publishing OPML sources.</p>",
"text": "@brine Visually very pleasing web app. It is fun to read stuff on you page. Would you consider also publishing the feed list as OPML?\n\nAsking because I try to solve the discover problem on the RSS / OPML side for feed readers with https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-feed-index/ and I'm looking for #indieweb sites publishing OPML sources."
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My best take on blog discovery...
https://discover.brine.dev
discover is a hand-curated list of RSS feeds worth following. Writers, makers, and thinkers who actually share their work via RSS.
Browse by playlist or tag, preview posts before you subscribe, then take what you want. Copy individual feed URLs or build a custom list in My Feed and export as OPML.
100% free. No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Your follows stay in your browser.
#IndieWeb #RSS #OpenWeb #Blogging #Discovery
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"html": "<p>My best take on blog discovery...</p><p><a href=\"https://discover.brine.dev\"><span>https://</span><span>discover.brine.dev</span><span></span></a></p><p>discover is a hand-curated list of RSS feeds worth following. Writers, makers, and thinkers who actually share their work via RSS.</p><p>Browse by playlist or tag, preview posts before you subscribe, then take what you want. Copy individual feed URLs or build a custom list in My Feed and export as OPML.</p><p>100% free. No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Your follows stay in your browser.</p><p><a href=\"https://4d2.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://4d2.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://4d2.social/tags/OpenWeb\">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://4d2.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://4d2.social/tags/Discovery\">#<span>Discovery</span></a></p>",
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@sharpblue Something positive came out of it, at least. :) Glad you enjoyed the website. There are lots more like it out there; check out the #indieweb hashtag here on Mastodon or Kagi's smallweb search. blogroll.org is great for blog discovery too.
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@sharpblue\">@<span>sharpblue</span></a></span> Something positive came out of it, at least. :) Glad you enjoyed the website. There are lots more like it out there; check out the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> hashtag here on Mastodon or Kagi's smallweb search. blogroll.org is great for blog discovery too.</p>",
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Hey so if you're the kind of person who cares about this kind of thing, Bubbles.town's labeling is being done with AI, which I suspect means that it's been fed your blogs regardless of what your robots.txt/ai.txt says
I was really excited about this project until I learned this. The site does not disclose that AI was used, I had to go digging through the dev's replies to find this. It's really disappointing to see for something purporting to be for the indie web
#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog
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"text": "Hey so if you're the kind of person who cares about this kind of thing, Bubbles.town's labeling is being done with AI, which I suspect means that it's been fed your blogs regardless of what your robots.txt/ai.txt says\n\nI was really excited about this project until I learned this. The site does not disclose that AI was used, I had to go digging through the dev's replies to find this. It's really disappointing to see for something purporting to be for the indie web\n\n#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog"
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One of the hard things about speaking more than one language is keeping up with stuff that happens in each.
For instance, not only is there a wonderful feed of English-language #indieweb blog posts on https://bubbles.town/, but there's also a German-language feed on https://bubbles.town/de/!
OMG. How do I keep up??? This is both Fluch und Segen zugleich.
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"html": "<p>The Colonization of Confidence. <a href=\"https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/\"><span>https://</span><span>sightlessscribbles.com/the-col</span><span>onization-of-confidence/</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogs\">#<span>Blogs</span></a></p>",
"text": "The Colonization of Confidence. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs"
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"Unplatform is an interactive guidebook, online library, and recommendations database intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web
And with a big database!
https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/
#database #oldweb #indieweb #usefulweb
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"html": "<p>I was thinking earlier this evening that there doesn't seem to be a directory of bloggers in Scotland. I am inspired by https://zacharykai.net/lists/oceania which lists bloggers from Oceania. Maybe I should start such a directory?</p>",
"text": "I was thinking earlier this evening that there doesn't seem to be a directory of bloggers in Scotland. I am inspired by https://zacharykai.net/lists/oceania which lists bloggers from Oceania. Maybe I should start such a directory?"
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"html": "<p>Kanadsk\u00ed politici na\u010falej predstieraj\u00fa, \u017ee ich nevydieraj\u00fa. Pom\u00f4\u017ee tento najnov\u0161\u00ed policajn\u00fd n\u00e1bor Toronta podvies\u0165 Kanadu? <a href=\"https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/sk/articles/kanadsk%C3%AD-politici-pokr%C4%8Dia,-preto%C5%BEe-korupcia-sa-uj%C3%ADma-hlavn%C3%A9ho-mesta.html\"><span>https://</span><span>jungyulkim.com/free-press/sk/a</span><span>rticles/kanadsk\u00ed-politici-pokr\u010dia,-preto\u017ee-korupcia-sa-uj\u00edma-hlavn\u00e9ho-mesta.html</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/News\">#<span>News</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Art\">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada\">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/NewYork\">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Toronto\">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Mafia\">#<span>Mafia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Crime\">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Headlines\">#<span>Headlines</span></a></p>",
"text": "Kanadsk\u00ed politici na\u010falej predstieraj\u00fa, \u017ee ich nevydieraj\u00fa. Pom\u00f4\u017ee tento najnov\u0161\u00ed policajn\u00fd n\u00e1bor Toronta podvies\u0165 Kanadu? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/sk/articles/kanadsk\u00ed-politici-pokr\u010dia,-preto\u017ee-korupcia-sa-uj\u00edma-hlavn\u00e9ho-mesta.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines"
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