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   デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 18:34:01 JST デイヴ

   If you were to design a brand new blogging platform from scratch today, what would it look like?

   Would it stick to the standard "N columns" template format?

   Would it have a dedicated Admin UI, or would it reuse existing tools?

   Would it define its own DB schema, or piggyback off existing standards?

   Would it make sense to design it as an ActivityPub client with a Web UI?

   #blog #software #development #wordpress #mastodon #activitypub

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     Joachim (joachim@boitam.eu)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 18:34:00 JST Joachim

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     @deivudesu Do You Want Me To Tell You About Kirby?

     (It’s interesting for its enormous freedom in terms of data structure and backend design and flexibility, not so much in terms of ActivityPub, social web, etc. Not so much a blog engine as it is a CMS)

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     デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 18:34:01 JST デイヴ

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     (and yes: I have finally decided to dedicate part of my weekend toward getting rid of that bloated piece of software, if only so I never need to care again about the inane pronouncements of Automattic CEO and Zuckerberg-wannabe Matt #Mullenweg)

     Doubtful that I'll do much beyond extracting my old WP posts to a clean format with a basic HTML template on top, but it got me curious about what a modern blog/CMS system could look like…

     #wordpress

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     デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 19:52:40 JST デイヴ

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     • Joachim

     @joachim Go on!

     [Edit] Arg. <screams in PHP>

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     Joachim (joachim@boitam.eu)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 19:52:40 JST Joachim

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     @deivudesu I suggest that you don’t stop at the mere mention of PHP, the software is good, actually :)

     (And I don’t have a lot of love for PHP, due to years of troubleshooting badly coded Wordpress themes & plugins)