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sharing a new permacomputing-inspired website making tool

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Lichen-Markdown is a new take on "the simplest possible CMS for the web that is friendly enough for non-technical users".

It's a light-weight low-power CMS — composed of just a few PHP files, that can easily run on small devices with little overhead.

Lichen-Markdown is a fork of the Lichen project that works with Markdown instead of Gemtext.

We made a website with more info about the project here -->

lichen.commoninternet.net

@notplants all best to you, but isn't using generated static site even more lightweight? don't want to sound mean, I'm using Yellow (similar project) for my own site

hi @albi thanks for sharing. yellow also looks interesting and has a lot of similarities, but also some differences.

for instance with lichen you can edit the header of the page directly through the browser, not just through the text editor. yellow also appears slightly more feature-rich and lichen is a bit more bare-bones, for better and for worse depending on what you want. but both interesting imo and sort of slightly different takes on a similar idea

and yes changing lichen to statically generate the pages instead of to render them in real-time via php would use fewer computing resources. they actually did change to this for the later version of lichen written in forth, and we were considering doing the same for lichen-markdown

we actually have an open issue for this (codeberg.org/ukrudt.net/lichen)

but thanks for commenting and sharing, and this is all to say I agree

Codeberg.orgChange to render html on save?In the forth version of lichen, in the changelog I saw: - Improved efficiency: changes are rendered to static HTML when saved rather than when the page is accessed this kind of makes sense to me, and I could see it being a good change to lichen-markdown as well. but its a significant change...

@albi and even if we add static site generation when you click save, to make the site use less resources when serving pages

i think it still might make sense to keep the live-rendering feature for the sake of the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, which i think is a cool feature of lichen

notplants

@albi also curious have you tried or seen some other tools similar to yellow? and what did you think? if you feel like sharing