Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by brabel on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:43AM (#21551830)

I don't know how much easier it can get than it already is.

Basically, just put a bunch of html/css files in a GitHub repo, then use the above page to let Netlify publish that on the net... it can even set up DNS for you so you can your own domain.

If that's still too hard, you can use a drag-and-drop option: https://app.netlify.com/drop

Just drop a folder with your website and you're done.

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:53AM (#21551865)

That seems appropriate for people who understand terms like “continuous deployment” and “serverless functions”, but I thought we were discussing a far, far more widespread audience. Nerds can set up websites with just an ssh password - we need something for the remaining 99.9%

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by Kaiyou on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:01AM (#21628646)

Is there a way for doing that, just instead of using html/css files, you'd use a docker image?

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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by yosito on Saturday November 16, 2019 @05:48PM (#21555443)

You don't even need Netlify. You can host basically any static sites directly on GitHub. I've got one pure HTML/CSS site, six React apps, and two Jekyll sites running on GitHub Pages.

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