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The final thought that comes to mind is BuddyPress, a plugin for WordPress sites. A pretty decent option if you already have a WordPress site setup. Source: about 1 year ago
As you're building a community site to allow parents and foster parents to create their own user profiles and potentially interact with each other, buddypress can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Source: over 1 year ago
I'd probably be remiss if I didn't also mention buddypress, which some like for creating a social/community space based on WordPress. I much prefer a forum, but you should at least look into buddypress a little. Source: over 1 year ago
Yes you can make the site in Wordpress. Some development work needed for sure. Please check Buddypress https://buddypress.org/ This a free plugin by Automattic. Source: over 1 year ago
My long-term plan: Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc. Adding WooCommerce support ( https://woocommerce.com/ ) so e-commerce.. Source: over 1 year ago
For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns. Source: over 1 year ago
Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email. I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, I use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I use https://pinafore.social on windows fine. Source: over 1 year ago
There are web frontends available where you can sign into your instance, just like you so with a mobile app. For example https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
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