Awesome to hear!

One downside I found of Continuwuity was no SMTP setup for password resets, or new user registration.

My current solution is to pay for a few TBs of cloud storage, which is enough for my backup needs. My server has a few scripts on it that I wrote which all run on different cron schedules. The scripts, in general, shut down the service it’s backing up, tars and compresses the files related to the service, spins the services back up, then copies the compressed archive to a central backup location, and a secondary backup on-site external hard drive. Another script runs every day which prunes old backups from the cloud storage, then uploads the new ones.

I considered functions that I wanted (for example, tags) and looked to see if there was a plugin that did what I wanted. Dokuwiki’s plugin browser was very useful for this.

What client(s) do you use/prefer?

Like many, I am looking for a Discord replacement and (possibly hot take) I largely like Discord’s layout, UI, and chat flow. That is to say, I like threads, channels, categories, and “servers” (spaces, what-have-you) to partition my chat experience. There are a few Matrix clients that replicate this closely, but the XMPP ones I have seen so far at least were not very enjoyable user experiences for me.

(Not for nothing, I also have been able to get a Synapse server running on my homelab, but have thus far not been able to successfully get an XMPP server running so that’s not helping my experience either)

Happy to check out your suggestions.

I use Dokuwiki for my small fantasy wiki project. I use many plugins to achieve the functionality and style that I want, but it works well for my needs. None of the others I looked at could do quite everything I wanted.

Might be overkill for what you want but I currently use Donetick.

Awesome set up. I just installed Homepage myself and I thought I was happy with the configuration, then I see this haha.

I really wish I could use my Baikal caldav server with the calendar integration but it seems like it only accepts ical, which is too bad.

The page shown is called Homepage and is quite lightweight and easy to set up.

I’ll join.

The stuff that I actually care about are automatically backed up twice, once to a simple external on site and once to a cloud. The cloud rotates between the most recent backups so it never takes up more than 1tb compressed, while the local external keeps backups for much longer (something like 6tb at a time).

I don’t have any experience with Ghost but just from glancing at it, seems like might be overkill for a simple blog. There are a lot of static site generators out there that would be on the safer side, I think. (I am not an expert at this though!)

I’ve been using Actual for over a year and I really like it a lot. Full disclosure though, I don’t use any of the linking features and manually input all transactions.

Would be cool, as I use both these and currently just update daily.

Paru

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I mean, difficulty is relative mate. I just said I couldn’t get Snikket working (after multiple tries, too) but I’ve spun up both matrix servers. So I’d personally say it’s harder.

Part of the appeal of these services, to some, is the decentralization.

Just a heads up, I feel like the people here who say things like “snikket is easy” are knowledgeable enough to forget what being a beginner is like.

I’ve been able to get both a Synapse server and a Continuwuity server up and working before I’ve been able to get anything XMPP working, including snikket. For being the older protocol, XMPP stuff just seems to be harder to find help/tutorials for, at least in my experience so far.

Heh, I’ve actually moved away from using Google Home stuff because it’s shoving Gemini down my throat and it’s been worse in the last six months than it was a year ago.