I miss the "good web".
We can contribute to making a part of it good again with one of these kinds of sites.
I did my part! It is a fun experience. No JS. No CDN. With a webring.
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I would love to see a return to curated link collections. Each person’s hobbies and expertise represented in links to the places they contribute, the repositories they are part of, the resources they depend on, and the information sources they consider reliable.
If you added some very basic support for verifying and following links that change, and something to prevent unauthorized AI bot scraping, and shipped it in a docker container that would run on small hardware like this, maybe an alternative grassroots internet could re-emerge.
Search for #smallweb or tilde sites, maybe that can be something that lights you up
I have a few small services I've been hosting on a Raspberry Pi 5 but ever since I saw a list of no JavaScript/CSS/HTML sites, I've been interested in hosting some simple pages just for myself. I'll probably look into something that can create simple pages with markdown because it's something simple that I'm already comfortable with.
When I started this idea I considered this https://picocms.org/about/ buuut to be frank, I wanted something 90s, so took Apache base page and went Nano style… because I can
Pico is kinda like Bludit, but Bludit has plugins. We all know the pros and cons of those but it does save you time if a plugin exists to do something you need, plus it has theme support. So pretty much the same then.... I just have used Bludit thus the recommendation
oh and "installation" is just copy the files to where you want a half decent webserver to serve from. Half decent I mean it is much easier with say apache or nginx but possible with others. Had good results with nginx on a pi4b and Bludit for example
Bludit can do this if you want to save a bit of time... depends on what you want really
Saving this for later. Just got my Pi 5 NAS running last night and started playing around with Jellyfin.