I'm looking for CMS recommendations, including possibly a headless CMS with a statically built site (I'm actually leaning in that direction).

In the past, I would normally just use #WordPress, but with the latest #WordPressDrama, I'm honestly concerned about its future.

The project I'm working on is for my Church. It's not for a single congregation, though. It's a regional thing serving ten congregations across the South Houston, Texas region. Not a huge amount of traffic, but not inconsequential.

Here are some basic requirements. I need it to support multiple users, with role based access. I need some amount of extensibility, as I plan to build out more features over time, including notifications of new content being pushed out to various destinations (SMS, mobile push, etc.). I haven't discussed with the church leaders what the budget is, but I imagine minimizing costs would also be a need. Localization will also be a concern. Seven of the congregations are English-speaking, two are Spanish, and one is Mandarin. So being able to have some content available in all three languages would be beneficial.

Any customization will be built by me, so, a language I'm familiar with, or can reasonably easily learn would be good. So, PHP, go, or node are the best options.

The site will host a few different things. It will serve as a directory of resources for folks with various needs. It will also serve as a hub for announcements.

Right now, I'm looking at a Directus headless CMS, hosted probably on AWS or DigitalOcean, and probably an Eleventy generated site, probably hosted on Netlify or Vercel. But, I'm certainly not married to the idea. And I still haven't completely ruled out just using WordPress, or perhaps even ClassicPress.

It's been so long since I've set up a content-driven site (aside from my own personal sites, which just use hugo), that I'm not sure what the best options are nowadays. Suggestions for hosting are also appreciated.

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Finally set up a personal @[email protected] instance. I can't believe it's taken me so long to do this. Such an easy set up.

I've got two questions, though, if anybody knows.

First, I've got some repos that are hosted on both my ForgeJo, and GitHub. I've noticed that GitHub Actions defined in .github/workflows are picked up by ForgeJo Actions. I don't really need them running both places. Can I disable Actions from running from .github, and only have them run from .forgejo?

Next, I want to automatically mirror some branches of some of my repos, but not all of them. So, when I push to certain branches in my ForgeJo, they'll be automatically pushed to other repos that I specify. I see how to set up the mirror settings, but it seems to be all or nothing. I suppose I could set up some standard git hooks to do this, maybe in post-receive, or use an Action, but if there's a built-in way, I'd love to do that. If there's not, if anybody has experience with the post-receive hook, I'd love some tips.

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I'm working on a new fedi server, and wanted to build on top of existing ActivityPub C2S API, rather than creating my own API.

I was looking through some of the specs for ideas. One of the things I want to have is similar to Mastodon lists but more hierarchical, and I was trying to think of a good way to represent this. The lists should be an OrderedCollection, but I'm thinking about discovery. Basically, I want an easy way for the client to discover these user-defined lists in an AP-conformant way.

So, on the actor object, there's this field that MAY be included:

streams: A list of supplementary Collections which may be of interest.

I think this is probably what I need, but this isn't very specific about how this field is formatted. And I've never seen this used in the wild. I'm not sure if this is a simple array of URLs to Collections, or a Collection of Collections, or perhaps an object of key/value pairs with the values being links to the Collections.

@[email protected] says on ActivityPub Primer:

This property is not widely implemented. There is not a clear way to filter the list of Collections according to what a client application may need. For example, a client application that wants to show contact lists to the user would not have an easy way to find only contact lists in streams. A client application that wants to show photo albums to the user would not have an easy way to find only photo albums in streams.

He suggests using extensions, in lieu of streams, but since it's not clear exactly how this property is to be used, I'm not sure if this would be insufficient for my needs or not.

Does anybody have any more insight into this field and how to use it?

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One of my coworkers, during a meeting, just accidentally misgendered another coworker who's non-binary. They gently corrected the mistake and moved on, which was fine, but the manner of misgendering made me wonder how best he should've addressed them.

He was trying to give them a compliment on their new haircut. What he said was "Girl, you're rocking that look!"

They corrected him saying, "Not girl, 'they', but in response to your other question ..."

If they were a woman, "Girl!" would've been a culturally appropriate way to address them in this circumstance. If they were a man, "Dude!" might've been more appropriate. So, what's the appropriate (at least in the US) non-binary alternative in this circumstance? Obviously, he could've just used their name, which would've worked well enough, but doesn't quite carry the same weight as the gendered alternatives.

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Is banana bread bread or cake?

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