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  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•looking for lightweight ghost blog alternativebyAzura The Spellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3 days

    I love ghost’s UI and feature set.

    What complex data format are you taking about? Last time I checked, it was plain markdown in a database (even supporting sqlite).

    What I’d recommend though, is coupling it with a static site generator and only using the ghost server for the administration / authoring (guides). That way, serving the blog to visitors is basically free in terms of resources (at last as low as it gets). You could even push these static builds to a CDN (yes yes, selfhost community, I’m just saying it for completeness)

    It might be some hassle to set this up somehow, but you could even have the container stopped unless you actively need it. You could even run the server application on your computer instead of the server, unless you want to access is from a smartphone/tablet.

    If you really want an alternative to Ghost and don’t need user management and an online WYSIWYG editor, you could go straight to an SSG and feed itraw it markdown files.

  • Privacy@lemmy.ml•Paperweight V1 - Your inbox knows where your data livesbyAzura The Spellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7 days

    Or if it works offline on an inbox dump, like pst files. It looks like it’s accessing the obvious using IMAP right?

    It running locally and having source code available are already great attributes.

    I’m usually unhappy with the “just audit the code for yourself” argument, not just because doing that is limited to (experienced) programmers, but often because of the sheer size and (un)readability of the code. I didn’t have a deep dive to give a proper review, just looked at a few files and the code is at least well written and readable, so “just audit this code” isn’t completely out off question.

    Thank you for sharing!

    [I’m not saying that the expectation of every piece of software needs to be that every one can audit the code, I don’t want to pressure you into thinking that’s what users demand, OP. Especially of the alternative is often to trust closed source options from shady companies]