Gay Eminem on 9/11

@DecayWTF

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

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Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF5/8/2023, 10:06 PM

Everyone talking about static site generators

Okay, so assume we wanted to build something to allow people to set up their own self-hosted static sites. It needs two halves:

An editor to build the site itself
Fire-and-forget hosting

The first part is not too hard: We have good examples of what such an editor could/should look like, whether it's carrd's simple editor or something more elaborate like Frontpage.

The other half is actually the hard part these days, since traditional "just FTP some stuff to 69.69.4.20:~/public_html" web hosting is mostly dead and gone and especially isn't just available for free with your Internet service anymore...

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X @xkeeper5/8/2023, 10:25 PM

there are still old web hosts out there but they're definitely a dying breed. shoutouts to my dreamhost account, still kicking since 2007 or so, even though the company has firmly shoved its cranium into its rectum repeatedly (starting around 2015)

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess5/8/2023, 11:31 PM

theoretically you could use github pages for this kind of thing? the users would need to set up their own github accounts but it's possible

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF5/9/2023, 2:03 AM

I mean kind of but it leaves you stuck with Github among other problems.

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess5/9/2023, 3:39 AM

“now you have two problems”

Pokey @tercel-enby5/8/2023, 11:48 PM

Is there a good user-friendly site builder that will give me HTML i can just feed into my Neocities account?

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF5/9/2023, 2:04 AM

Not that I'm aware of! This is the reason I started thinking about this. It's doable to create one and probably not terribly difficult - I'm already thinking of how to build a GTK program that would let you do it - but such programs are mostly long deprecated and the second point is part of the reason why.

Anschel @Anschel5/9/2023, 2:45 AM

NearlyFreeSpeech has this functionality and it works well for me.

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF5/9/2023, 3:38 AM

Hence "mostly dead and gone". And NFS has a higher barrier to entry than we might want in general as compared to eg just uploading something to your home directory that you already have on an ISP server you already use daily.

Anschel @Anschel5/9/2023, 11:49 AM

Fair enough. But I'm not sure if the barrier to entry has gotten higher or the technical skill of the average internet user has gotten lower. Last I checked NFS does allow FTP—I wasn't old enough to be doing this kind of thing in the 90s but I think the process is basically the same as it was then.

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