Vvdt
Vvdt
@manton What are recommended alternatives to WordPress for self hosted micro.blog sites?
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cleverdevil
cleverdevil

@Vvdt the easiest is probably Known, which I use on cleverdevil.io. It will play pretty nicely with Micro.blog out of the box, and with some tweaks, it can really be dialed in.

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ChrisJWilson
ChrisJWilson

@cleverdevil @vvdt I didn’t know of known (sorry could t resist but also true). I think @blot is also quite popular.

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Vvdt
Vvdt

@Vvdt thanks for the tips guys!

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Vvdt don’t know known but @blot rocks

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@vasta that’s right - but technically neither is my wordpress site hosted in some servers in Chicago - or wherever they are kept.

In fact compared to that scenario arguably I would say blot is closer to self hosting than Wordpress.

If Dropbox closes tonight ... all my content is in my Dropbox in my Mac, no exception - if my hosting provider closes tonight I will have everything on my Mac up to the last time I synched it with mars edit.

Of course if blot itself disappeared / I would need to work hard on a replacement way to show those files on a web site.

But get what you are saying.

Importance to me are actual posts but links of actual posts will break if David goes away .... don’t do that @blot

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pauljacobson
pauljacobson

@JohnPhilpin Blot may be closer to self-hosted than WordPress, but this is not a small concern:

Of course if blot itself disappeared / I would need to work hard on a replacement way to show those files on a web site.

There are a number of ways to backup a WordPress site. Springing for Jetpack Personal is worth it, just for the backups that you can migrate to another WordPress site on any one of a number of hosts.

That's not to say that Blot is a bad idea, but it's worth considering these possibilities.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@pauljacobson Paul, yes thankyou.

I understand ... I think I am trying to ask ourselves what do we want people to be responsible for and how do we make it easy for them.

And by people I mean people in general. The ‘poets’ as @Dave calls them. How do we lower THEIR barrier to entry, flatten the learning curve so to speak.

These people want to get their words, pictures, music, movies ... onto a site quickly and simply - I think backups come later in their thinking ...

Of course I have zero data to back that up .... just a gut feeling and watching specific cases.

Re Wordpress .....

Personally, I have a bad habit of putting up blogs all the time .. including Wordpress .. and I run an Australian based service called WPMUDEV which handles a lot of things for me including backups.

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pauljacobson
pauljacobson

@JohnPhilpin

These people want to get their words, pictures, music, movies ... onto a site quickly and simply - I think backups come later in their thinking ...

Sure, although I think Jane/Joe Poet will still find a blog on a service like WordPress.com/Wix/Squarespace will be more convenient, once they get past the initial learning curve for the platform.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Blot interesting thought ...

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@pauljacobson yup ... learning curve again ... in the end horses for courses

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