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Marie-Cécile Godwin (Paccard)

OKAY FRIENDS. I'm looking for THE SIMPLEST, most straight-forward . No clever template engine, no plugins, just something that allows me to build a simple HTML website with the basics (text, images, links, chronological "blog" posts, maybe a contact form, if even) and allows several users to contribute to website content.

Drop em like they're hot!

@jlamasfripp @mcpaccard +1

also, the (optional) integration with nextcloud makes it soooooo easy to use 🤩

@malte @jlamasfripp I remember trying desperately to make it work on my NC instance back in 2021... I'll give it another try because the content publication process using NC is definitely great and answers most of my collaborative needs!

@mcpaccard @jlamasfripp let me know if i could be of help in regards to webserver-config or similar issues!

@malte I'm barely getting started and... (what does it mean by "the path is not a local location", I shall never know) @jlamasfripp

@mcpaccard @jlamasfripp hmmm. do you have the files_external extension enabled, and try to configure a place in there?

( a.k.a. could you try to create a new test-folder directly in your home-folder, and see if that would be configurable? )

@mcpaccard @jlamasfripp ps: i haven't used the picocms-app in a while, and just noticed that it's not compatible with the newest version of nextcoud, yet, so i have a limited ability to test for now 🙇

@mcpaccard Would still vote for Kirby CMS. Commercial and not the simplest, but it’s flexible and does fit your requirements well.

If you find something that fits your requirements well out-of-the-box, with very little or no need for you to create content types, then *that* would be a better fit. Otherwise, I’d bet on Kirby.

@mcpaccard Bookmarking this, and loving the frustration with over-engineered solutions.

"Finally a good blogging engine! *Just* deploy this package to a lambda-fronted RDS instance, then SSH and use VIM to edit categories before adding author accounts…"💥

@mcpaccard blot.im/ will run a simple website off a Git repository, Dropbox folder, or Google Drive folder full of text files (Markdown also accepted). It looks ridiculously easy -- I've been trying to think of a blog I need to blog so I have an excuse to use it.

blot.imBlotTurns a folder into a website

@mcpaccard try gohugo.io
It helps to generate static pages from files, with support for different authors.
You may want to save a static version though, in the past it did not always have a smooth upgrade path. But if it does what you need, upgrades aren’t really necessary anyway.

gohugo.ioThe world’s fastest framework for building websitesThe world’s fastest framework for building websites

@mcpaccard I'm building a (not yet live) site in WriteFreely. It's federated, too.

@mcpaccard I used PicoCMS before moving to Datenstrom Yellow : datenstrom.se/yellow/

Very simple and lightweight, but the philosophy is "all is plugin".

For a contact form, go to github.com/datenstrom/yellow-e, download the zip for Contact, and upload it to system/extensions. Reload the admin page, and it's done. Same for a theme.

You can update all your plugins by just clicking a button, so it's just a matter of a couple of hours setting the website to your liking before running it for years.

Datenstrom Yellow
DatenstromFor people who make small websitesDatenstrom Yellow is for people who make small websites.