[HN Gopher] Revisiting Textpattern
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       Revisiting Textpattern
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-10-28 07:59 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | petecooper wrote:
       | Hi - Textpattern contributor & server grease monkey here.
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       | Happy to answer any questions as best I can!
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       | Further reading:
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       | https://github.com/textpattern/
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       | https://textpattern.com
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       | https://docs.textpattern.com
        
         | alberth wrote:
         | Would you mind open sourcing the Forum board?
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         | I love it (and think it's based on the defunct FluxBB)
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         | https://forum.textpattern.com/
        
           | petecooper wrote:
           | Done!:
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           | https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-forum
        
       | asolove wrote:
       | RIP, Dean. I miss the days of this kind of ethos being central to
       | the web.
        
         | selykg wrote:
         | Wait, Dean passed?
         | 
         | Man. What a throwback to the TextDrive days.
        
           | petecooper wrote:
           | https://textpattern.com/weblog/memories-of-dean-allen
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           | https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/
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           | https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/dean_allen
        
             | selykg wrote:
             | Ah man...
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             | Thanks for the links. Sad day. Dean was a great human.
        
       | esher wrote:
       | Amazing that Textpattern is still around.
        
       | gaoshan wrote:
       | I was so onboard with Textpattern that I bought their "lifetime"
       | hosting plan back in the day. Some of you probably remember how
       | that went. Wikipedia says that
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       | "On August 16, 2012, individuals who had provided start-up and
       | development funding to Joyent (and its predecessor, TextDrive) in
       | exchange for lifetime shared hosting accounts with Joyent were
       | informed, via email, that their lifetime hosting accounts would
       | be deleted on October 31, 2012... Customer backlash to the
       | announcement turned out to be fierce."
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       | It was a learning moment for me to never trust companies that
       | promise lifetime anything. Once you surrender your money you are
       | without leverage and a promise is little better than a fart in
       | that situation.
        
         | petecooper wrote:
         | >I was so onboard with Textpattern that I bought their
         | "lifetime" hosting plan back in the day.
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         | For clarity: TextDrive was the hosting organisation,
         | Textpattern is the CMS.
        
           | 8ig8 wrote:
           | And Textile is the markup lang...
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           | https://textile-lang.com/
        
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