And by that I mean,
An http server that serves word-like rich formatted text documents and includes a web-based rich formatting text editor to write and edit these documents.
With some searching I found these might be candidates
Ghost
WriteFreely / Write.as
Plume
And maybe the following editors in some kind of standalone mode
TipTap
Editor.js
Quill.js
CKEditor 5
Slate.js
… A … blog? Are you asking if it’s possible to selfhost a blog?
You can tell OP is a younger Gen Z by this post lol.
It sounds like a stupid question but if OP isn’t 30+ it’s perfectly understandable to not be aware of the former ubiquity of self hosted blogs.
I am aware of self hosted “blogs” but that’s not what I want.
A better way to explain what I want is
This, but opensource and self-hosted
with per-file access control
Oh that one looks nice ! thanks
And they’ve answered their own question by listing several valid candidates.
Well, that’s just a blog. WordPress comes to mind, though try not abusing it by installing too many plugins and transforming it to an abomination that takes 3 seconds to hack.
There are probably more modern alternatives, I personally wrote my own blog system that uses ActivityPub to synchronise with Lemmy and others.
There are probably thousands of different static website generators that can make a more beautiful website out of the box, for free.
I want something that is more akin to using microsoft word except it’s in the browser and not made by satan Something I can recomment to people and know they’re not going to come back to me and ask “what is a markdown code block”
StackEdit is a good rich text to markdown web application: https://stackedit.io/
As far as the editor, this is great. I pasted formatted text out of libre office into it and everything was fine except the images. Way better than a lot of the options here.
Althought one caveat, and it might be a big one,
It seems it can’t actually host files publicly, you need to publish them to a third party cloud hosting platform…But other wise, it’s very nice…
There has to be a way !
It’s hard to tell if any of these are the thing I’m looking for or not.
