appstore VS cms

I have good news for you: https://apps.nextcloud.com

Nextcloud is nothing more than a collection of small apps. You can disable even core things like sharing.

Anyway, I'm sure you would have found this by using your favourite search engine. Nextcloud is pretty popular. And you'll find much more integrations on the Nextcloud app page or on /r/nextcloud.

Nextcloud allows us to keep our personal files in sync across devices. I use it to sync files between my desktop, laptop, and phone. This means I can work on the same file from anywhere. I leverage a separate file server to store backups, installation kits, legacy documents, iso files, roms, and other things that I want to keep, but do not need direct and immediate access to on the regular. Nextcloud is purpose built. You can access your files through an installed client or through its web interface. Nextcloud has a lot of add-on apps as well which can really extend its functionality. Nextcloud also has an "instant upload" feature which uploads your photos from your phone to your Nextcloud instance. This can be very helpful as it is easier for me to view/edit photos from my desktop. You can also share files between users on the same Nextcloud instance. it's very similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, except you can host it yourself and keep your data, your data.

It is overkill for this only, but if you want to host many more small services like this easily, you may be interested in Nextcloud. Once you have it, you can add any app available on https://apps.nextcloud.com/ with one button, in particular the bookmark app. Bookmarks can then be synced to your browser with the open-source addon https://floccus.org/

Can you reach https://apps.nextcloud.com/ from your network?

By default it does the usual expected things like file and photo syncing, notes, calendar, contacts, to-do lists, etc. Because it's open source, it can be extended by other people who make "apps" for it that you can install, of which you can see an exhaustive list here. Notable entries include office software, password managers, RSS readers, chat services, and plenty more.

Like KDE, Gnome, and Nextcloud?

Nextcloud has support for far more features than just file serving if you look at all these apps.

I agree with you. It seems like the self-hosting community is getting a decent amount of attention right now, and the ability to deploy browser-based applications is the way to go for many FOSS projects.

I think NextCloud [0] has a few apps that do G Suite-type stuff, but I don't have experience using them. Etherpad [1] also seems really good, I've used it in a few Zoom calls and the experience was smooth.

[0] https://apps.nextcloud.com/

Statamic is one of the best flat-file CMSs. It’s built with Laravel and can be used as a headless Git-based CMS as well. The paid professional version allows you to use REST APIs and GraphQL APIs for content management and offers a GitHub integration for content storage and editorial workflows.

Aah, that's always a controversial question, on one hand, some universal rules of usability do exist, but on the other hand, everyone's habits, taste and use cases are very different.

The most neutral definition of a "well designed" website, without any further context, could be "created in a way that helps users achieve intended goals efficiently, while keeping max number of users happy about its look".

Again, different audiences will have very different answers. Here at HN, sites like https://www.mcmaster.com/ and https://www.craigslist.org win – because HN users appreciate old look and how efficient these sites are.

https://www.apple.com/ is an industry standard of a marketing site for consumer tech. It's not universally "well designed".

Other examples of well done marketing pages: https://www.sketch.com/ ; https://statamic.com/ ; https://linear.app/ got its share of hype recently.

Other times, a website is well designed because its content is awesome and is easy to consume. See https://ciechanow.ski/ and https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

Is https://github.com/ well designed? As an amateur developers, I'd say yes.

Is https://htmx.org/ well designed? Hmm, at a glance, there's no design at all. Is no design also design? That's a rabbit hole.

P.S. I often hear my website is well-designed :-)

Local CMSs are the ones that are mostly file-based (like Statamic or Astro). This means that you can edit everything locally and deploy the data. This way, our CMS is more secure, but on the downside, you have to have a local server working, and you might experience more conflicts, especially when two people will work on the same article (although Git might save you from many of those). It also means that there is a higher learning curve. A remote CMS works somewhere on a server, and most users don't care how.

I use Statamic, the free version will do everything your looking for and it can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be. It's flat file based (by default) too so deployment / version control is super easy.

Statamic (PHP / Laravel)

I'm not in the market for a CMS but if I were I'd likely go with https://statamic.com/ if I needed to build something from scratch.

If you're looking for a great CMS and were bitten by WordPress back in the day, you should take a look at Statamic (https://statamic.com)

It's a Laravel package and it's the best CMS I've ever used (from a dev perspective). v4 just dropped the other day

https://statamic.com free for personal. Your welcome.