Quartz or mkdocs

I suppose the problem that I had with Media Wiki is that every update would break extensions. Particularly mathjax and semantic media Wiki. I too amusing it with Docker which helps a lot.

So docuicki has a recent pages view which is really good and lists the user that made the edit. That’s what we use for a feed. There’s also an RSS plug-in that will display other feeds which is kind of nice if you want to discuss other articles.

We create Journal pages that link out to pages for events etc. The events are also linked to from a start page. We display the backlinks using the footer plugin.

Whilst it’s a bit different from social media in that there is no feed, it’s really nice that it provides, like a database of our family’s life in history.

We even have pages for cars and repair logs, computers and updates, everything. The struct plugin is amazing And you can always pop it open in SqliteBrowser too!

I’ve tried a couple of things and I just keep coming back to dokuwiki because it’s the best compromise.

No, I don’t. And that’s going to be one of our big differences here. Everyone in my family is tech literate and knows at least a little bit of programming.

I would strongly suggest dokuwiki. It’s like having a forever Journal of Family affairs and I really like it. I know it’s not quite the social media aesthetic but in my experience I found it to be the thing that stuck.

I would argue against Mediawiki though. It may be more user-friendly for some family members, but the maintenance becomes a nuisance And pulling things out of the database involves half a dozen joins.

Even though dokuwiki editing is text in markup, It’s not a hard concept to grasp and the simplicity makes it feel more tangible which may be appreciated by older family members.

There’s a plugin that does it, FoF or something, and then you can upload an image from your device and it’s pretty good. Some videos play others require downloading after uploading though.

Our family uses a post in flarum for a monthly feed and then moves a few of those images into a dokuwiki page with the gallery plugin.

I could never get mastodon to work with an app without using SSL.

I much prefer setting up a VPN and reverse proxy without having to deal with SSL. So it was really annoying not being able to use an app on the phone to connect to it.

We tried it and didn’t like the clunky UI.

We also tried Lemmy but it was a bit of a nuisance to maintain.

In the end we settled on a forum with a wiki.

We tried a few forums but in the end Flarum was the nicest, Just a bit of a pain to set the domain to be dynamic but it can be done with some PHP, alternatively, just use a reverse proxy with dnsmasq and wireguard pointing to that DNS.

As for a Wiki We have tried mediawiki, WikiJS And a couple others. I would recommend dokuwiki. (I hear good things about bookstack too).

How does it compare with Immich?

It is incredibly good. Cheese and chalk good. Using it with Aider really highlights how much the Dev space is about to change.

As others have said. I left photoprism for immich and it’s much better

Typically modal refers to insert/normal mode.

Mode in terms of the file type is fairly standard across all editors.

So Emacs, VScode, Vim and Pycharm are the obvious choices.

Geany and Kate are options but they’re not as nice to use.

See generally helix and zed.

Yeah gotta back Arch here. It’s relatively stable and a good compromise between the two extremes of non-modular highly configured and DIY.

The only moving part with arch is installing a couple packages.

Pick a rolling release distribution with a limited number of opinionated choices. Arch is a good one. Void is another (although far less main stream).

Ubuntu is very non-modular and highly opinionated, probably avoid that.

I recommend XFCE over LXDE, it’s probably a better compromise in terms of what you’re looking for.

So, my advice:

1. Install endeavourOS (or arch directly if so inclined)
2. Choose xfce at install time
   • you may install gnome and then xfce over the top of you like
   • you may also like KDE plasma, but try to avoid a mix and match with gnome/xfce and KDE, you’ll find some theming etc will be a nuisance
3. Keep it up to date.

So I use reverse proxies etc with my containers for others services

But KeePass with rsync is easier for passwords. I just use termux on my phone

I recommend using a docker container, they make the whole thing painless and easy.

I think the Linuxserver.io one is what I used from memory.

Yeah if this is for a small number of users, I would recommend wireguard or tailgate.

Port forwarding is asking for trouble.

Oh yeah fair.

I haven’t bothered with DNS level blocking because ublock use so good. #todo.

Yeah but ublock origin more than makes up for it.

And Dark Reader. I simply don’t understand why chrome doesn’t have dark mode on android.

Yeah I hear that, good point.

Arch has great documentation but also a bit more config.

I would vote for Fedora over debian though. Debian packages are so far out of date that it becomes a pain and copr works quite well.

If it’s just a server, Alpine and docker will do most things with good reliability and security.

Otherwise I’ve actually always used void and arch. While those aren’t typical choices for a server, it shows that it’s hard to go wrong.

Choose a distribution that appeals to you and it’ll work great.

For this use case, alpine sounds good.

Yeah I think if I looked deeper into it I could have got it a bit leaner.

But it was simply easier to use distrobox and share the image.

I totally agree that nix is a more elegant solution to the problem though.