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no real complains about GNU social. I've just been putting off figuring out how to install it and change it to better suit my very particular needs (I'm really annoyed by unstable URLs, that change if you accidentally reload, or if you leave them alone for a while and then get back to it and then "next" no longer does that), worried about how to go about maintaining it on my own (since there doesn't seem to be an active maintainer, at least not one I've been able to reach), and running such a large piece of code written in a language I'm not familiar on an internet-facing server didn't sound very appealing.

then I came across snac, that looked so easy to install, written in a language I'm deeply familiar with, aiming at current standards, very portable and readable, and it seemed like something I could give a try. so I did, and it didn't take me long to realize that it failed to serve my particular needs even worse than GNU social, but it took me no more than a few hours to patch it so as to bring it on par with GNU social + the local scripts I've long used with it to make it more manageable, and I already see a path to make it more friendly to my unusual preferences. on GNU social, because of the language, I'd likely be stuck for a much longer time to get to that point, and it would take me a much larger investment of time to learn PHP than I can afford 😞

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