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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
We’ve veered seriously off-topic by now, but…
Bloke wrote #336182:
Disqus. That’s the commenting system we used on TXP Mag, IIRC.
As Vienuolis indicates, that could track your commenting behaviour across many sites … making it questionable from a privacy point of view. You could close your account to stop your comments being viewable publicly but the site owner could still view your previous comments (see https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1886218-privacy-faq).
Vienuolis wrote #336183:
Disq.us has already been bought, made obscene and unethical. I am looking for an open source alternative.
There is commento which is similar but costs, and also isso that is open source.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
jakob wrote #336184:
You could close your account to stop your comments being viewable publicly but the site owner could still view your previous comments…
That just reaffirms my position to never trust not rely on other blog owners with fair processing of my data, thus never bother commenting where I can’t delete, or at least edit, my data if I want to. I certainly would never use a commercial comments system again, from either direction, but there are a lot of dupes in the world that would.
Btw, In addition to being able to delete your posts in Masto, you can also ‘delete-redraft’ them or ‘edit’ them.
The Delete-Redraft is basically a full deletion of that post record, but it gives you all the text in a new record to make redrafting/editing easier. Because the original record is deleted, such a redraft is removed from any threads it might have been in. It was the only way to edit posts for a long time.
The Edit feature is newer and works as you would expect. Edited posts remain in their threads. When a post is edited, an asterisk appears by the date to indicate that fact. Also anyone having favorited or boosted such a post prior to it being edited, will be notified that it has been changed, in case you want to undo the fave/boost.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
This, coming from a popular instance admin, is a decent analogy with regard to regular web vs fediverse.
She also shares my sentiment about not being on big instances.
And regarding what I was saying about the aversion of overt capitalism in fedi, that doesn’t mean exploiters won’t try. They do. Assholes are always trying to exploit a potential audience. Iggy’s Law.
Just this morning I had two spam posts in my timeline, one posting to a hashtag I follow, and one picking me out, along with a lot of other names. I don’t know how that one was managed. I hope it was random.
But in both cases, you can block and report the wayward accounts, or, if the entire instance is generally bad (spam, racism, whatever… and you have to take the time to investigate that a bit), you can simply block the entire instance. I’ve done that a few times.
Sometimes your instance admin may block the instances too (defederate with them), if your instances conduct policy fits, protecting everyone on your instance.
The point is, the fediverse is evolving and probably will be for a while. It’s still not perfect, and may never be, but it’s already way better than ‘out there’ (regular web). And it’s kind of fun to be in there and watch from the side lines.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
Yes, there is still a need for a small CMS. There must be people like me and you (wet and other forum users) in some respects, even if we are totally unique. And we all like TXP a lot and it is a small CMS.
I once was more widely interested in new webthings but I bet many of you, like me, are tired of much of it. Social media is so fake, even Mastodon, so where do people turn when they see through the fakery and irrelevance? They look for quality, things that stand the test of time, things they can rely on.
So yes, there will always be a need for Textpattern until it is bought up by the Evil Empire hell bent on consuming everything and too blind to see they are wasting their own lives in the process, no matter how rich they get.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
zero wrote #336210:
Yes, there is still a need for a small CMS. There must be people like me and you (wet and other forum users) in some respects, even if we are totally unique. And we all like TXP a lot and it is a small CMS.
Bless you. Yes there is Hope for the Future.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
Late to this, but at age 70, interest remains in using TXP. I had help installing & designing back in 2005. A now rusty old weblog is still out there, but looks bad on a phone, is probably not secure, has long-dead plugins etc.
Several years back I made another attempt to get Linux installed on a Chromebook (my daily driver), learn to use it so I could run XAMPP to learn how to edit my old weblog offline & bring it up to mobile first, responsive, free of dead plugins, etc. The layers of frustrations & failed attempts & lost time did such damage to my psyche that I gave up once more.
Would I post to a modern version of rodentregatta.com again? Occasionally, yes. But, the effort to relocate it will likely be more frustrating than the attempts to resurrect it.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
6sigma wrote #336243:
Late to this, but at age 70, interest remains in using TXP.
At 70 you are young!. I re-did two sites to make them responsive when I hit 75. Now, a few years later, I am out lounging in the internetz pasture or riding.
PS this guy is my hero
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My hero is a bit older: Vladas Drupas at his 93th year — still a master of aerobatics!
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
In related news: The Automattic “AI” thing
So Automattic, the company financing the development of the Open Source WordPress blogging platform is in talks to sell user generated data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
— @tante
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
That is indeed an intriguing move by Automattic, and one I can’t really see having a rosy end.
Textpattern won’t be going there. Ever. And not just because it’s no secret I dislike AI at present.
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
wet wrote #336765:
In related news: The Automattic “AI” thing
Not nice, not nice at all, Automaticc.
…and it seems that this not only affects sites hosted by wordpress[.]com, but also the many self hosted WP sites using Jetpack if I follow the story correctly on that poorly threaded mastodon account
Greed is a wonderful thing…
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Re: Is there still a need for a "small content management system"?
OTOH, Donncha Ó Caoimh tries to calm the waves.
Nevertheless, I think it would be worth considering to emphasise somewhere (wherever Textpattern is mixing with the unwashed masses these days, I don’t really know) that Textpattern is one of the last volunteer-driven non-profit publishing tools of our days.
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phiw13 wrote #336771:
…on that poorly threaded mastodon account
You might enjoy phanpy.social for a brighter Mastodon experience. I do.
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wet wrote #336772:
OTOH, Donncha Ó Caoimh tries to calm the waves.
So, it might be an opt-in affair after all? The original 404media story when read in full (and after its update to include what seems a statement by Automaticc) implies as much. That
would be less bad. But this is in need of much clarity.
wet wrote #336773:
You might enjoy phanpy.social for a brighter Mastodon experience. I do.
I will need to find back my mastodon account details for that.
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