How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
Doing great! Some of my goals ended up not working out for me, such as the Mediawiki goal - turns out I actually hate using that software, whoops, it's not intuitive to me at all! However, I did manage to set up my otwarchive fic archive... somewhat sort of? I still need to figure out a problem with elasticsearch. Or why there are no user profiles... 😠But omg, this is only the second thing (okay third I guess, counting the failed mediawiki experiment) I've ever self-hosted without help from Yunohost. I don't know how I did this and am extremely proud of myself for doing so.
What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
Getting my archive set up fully! I can't wait to have everything technical sorted out so I can work on the site customization. I'm thinking a buttercup yellow theme, since there isn't an OTWarchive site with that color yet.
What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?
Um. Everything. Self-hosting is hard lmao. I haven't solved the search problem yet, but will likely try and start on it tomorrow.
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Date: 2025-09-15 11:17 pm (UTC)Doing great! Some of my goals ended up not working out for me, such as the Mediawiki goal - turns out I actually hate using that software, whoops, it's not intuitive to me at all! However, I did manage to set up my otwarchive fic archive... somewhat sort of? I still need to figure out a problem with elasticsearch. Or why there are no user profiles... 😠But omg, this is only the second thing (okay third I guess, counting the failed mediawiki experiment) I've ever self-hosted without help from Yunohost. I don't know how I did this and am extremely proud of myself for doing so.
What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
Getting my archive set up fully! I can't wait to have everything technical sorted out so I can work on the site customization. I'm thinking a buttercup yellow theme, since there isn't an OTWarchive site with that color yet.
What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?
Um. Everything. Self-hosting is hard lmao. I haven't solved the search problem yet, but will likely try and start on it tomorrow.