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Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not "cool" enough?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

:shrug:

It's trivial to host yourself, and super light on resources. Personally, I don't use it; for blogging I write markdown and rsync it over to the server where Hugo picks it up and turns it into a blog. Now that I think about it, I should probably go shut my WriteFreely down. I have a few pages on it, but I hate web app interfaces, so I didn't put much content in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I was also doubting about Hugo but came about writefreely as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It depends on how you want to write. If you want to use a web interface, WriteFreely is decent. If you like your text editor, Hugo is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Literally just set one up yesterday on neocities, it was surprisingly easy. Of course then I managed to break it because I'm not as familiar with git as I'd like to be lol.

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