Is it because the GOS lead dev keeps pissing in the pool? /s

Do a good job

Sorted.

I put out a similar question a few months ago. For me, it’s getting an old multiuser blog off Wordpress.

I had a lot of good feedback that I’m still trying to collate, so I recommend you pour over the responses and crossposts for the full picture. As others have said here, though — despite the steep learning curve, Hubzilla looks really interesting.

Always, several times a day 🙂

I never got near the actual printshop (usually done abroad to cut costs), but yeah. You pick up stuff all along the production chain.

Especially when the printer offers to do some small change in the print files for “a modest added fee”… No thanks, tell me what you need and I’ll fix it myself!

“All em dashes in this 200 page book have somehow been replaced with hyphens? 😨 Give me ten minutes!” 😂

Probably a regional phrase. I’m in Scandinavia, English terms get absorbed and reappropriated into the language(s). Never considered that wasn’t the original usage.

But yeah, I designed, laid out, and did prepress on a few periodical art magazines here. I was the whole graphics department 😉

Rom is such an undervalued player in that one. May Day will always be Rom Day for me:

I was just posting elsewhere that I could probably settle for street sweeping.

Thirty years creative work experience, eight years academic — fuck it. If people want “AI” generated bullshit, I’m not bothered putting anymore original work out there.

Well, there goes my academic career.

It’s on my mobile keyboard as an alt option for the hyphen. And yes, I use keyboard shortcuts on my computer. Worked as a layouter for print in years. You learn to appreciate a good em dash.

being competent at writing now makes me get accusations of using [“AI”]

Long time em dash user over here, feeling your pain 😞

Um, although I don’t want to cast aspersions based on my own ignorance — who the hell even is Anthony Martino? Is this his first shot at actually making money off his music, by suing a nonprofit?

I will say I did the most basic research into the guy, and according to his wikipedia entry his songs have been featured in some TV shows. Wikipedia also notes that “It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:lack of notability. Tony seems to have created pages for himself and related projects”, so draw your own conclusions.

Argh! 😰

You’re right, I didn’t dig past a first glance, and I missed [counts fingers] some 60+ years worth of copy/pasting…

Looking good. I have to ask, considering what I have ahead of me — that newsblog going back to 2022, are those all Hubzilla-native posts, or did you import the older ones from another CMS?

Ooh, thanks! That didn’t turn up in my searches. Are you involved with this?

I’ll try to get by with my rusty schoolbook German, and browser translations if needed 👍

closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress

Ouch! Thanks for that assessment. As much as I’ve favoured Hubzilla in my considerations lately, I’ve gotten a similar impression going over their docs. I just needed someone else to put their finger on it.

Bonfire — yeah, our timing is off as far as their development goes 🙂 But I think/hope we have time to wait it out before Wordpress realises their “AI” plans(?)

I could reach out to Bonfire, but imagine someone like you would have more cachet with them? Plus, knowing open source development, users asking for/wanting a thing doesn’t necessarily translate into developers changing their focus to that. But it’s worth a try!

I was hoping for advice on the list I’d gathered, but you’re not making it shorter, Julian 😄

Thanks for the heads up! It’s a rollercoaster with Classicpress, but good to have it back in the race.

Thanks for the offer! I’ll bookmark this and put it forward to my co-admins. I’ll have to look into Wagtail myself a bit, too. 👍

Our first priority will be to migrate the site as fluently as possible to whatever CMS we transition to. Archiving it as HTML and starting from scratch with a new platform — that’s a last ditch effort, I think.

[Edit: I tried to cover the WP fork subject here]

Hugo as a longterm solution isn’t going to float with some of our users, I’m afraid. I can vividly imagine somebody turning the old site into a single “Hello world!” page given that kind of permissions.

We will need strictly limited access for contributors, and a clear, friendly input field for text…