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I have off-and-on searched for alternative software for personal blogs that can be self-hosted and it doesn’t seem like there are many options anymore. The only ones I’ve seen are WriteFreely and FlatPress. Are there any other options you’re aware of?
Depends on if you need a CMS, or if you can use a static site generator.
For a CMS, I'm still a fan of Ghost and it has (mostly) not enshittified to the point it's unpleasant to use.
If you don't need the whole CMS thing, there's an awful lot of options. (And hosting them is super simplified since you can just stuff the output into a S3 bucket/Cloudflare Pages/Github Pages/a dozen other providers for basically free.)
There's Contao, Drupal, Blogger, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace...
Had to use Squarespace for work. Did not enjoy.
That's fair. Interesting how blanket advertising often means the opposite of better.
Shopify seems like it was purposely designed to be as dreadful as possible. They seemed to go out of their way to make dumb decisions.
Is contao still around? I used to use it back in the early 2000s
They released 5.4 in August.
It moved to symfony starting with contao 4. You can now either use it as a self-managed CMS or add it to an existing symfony application to add CMS functionality. Great stuff.
Most of the community is German speaking though, keep that in mind.