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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @deSign_r 14 Dec \ parent \ on: NoAlt - Bigtech alternatives on Nostr nostr
Using Drupal open-source code does not make this tool open-source itself.
Why? Mostly because
- Code powering the website is not available for fork/review/contributions.
- People cannot submit new apps or edit existing ones.
The easier option would be to add a form for people to submit new apps or edit existings ones.
Even so, using such powerful dinosaur for such simple project does not feel appropriate to me. A simple jekyll static website (or similar) hosted on git would do much better and easy for others to maintain as it uses markdown, a formatting language that is intuitive and easy to learn. You could actually deploy in some blossomservers.com for hosting the website and use gittr.space as a code repository.
Don't get me wrong, I truly appreciate such projects. The issue is that typically we use what we aim to deliver what we can, and is not enough for it to make it successful and useful for the masses. Allow others to contribute.
You're correct on all the points.
As a Drupal specialist I've helped @jurjendevries to setup this Drupal powered website. I also know that Jurjen is not very familar with Git (yet), but I'm sure he will be totally fine to host the code somewhere in a public repo (using ngit). Deploying it as a static website (nsite) won't be possible, as Drupal is still a 'classic' PHP powered website which needs a webserver to handle the requests.