WriteFreely is a clean, minimalist publishing platform designed for writers. It can be used to run a personal blog, share knowledge within an organisation or build a writing community.
The software provides a distraction-free, auto-saving editor and supports public or private communities. ActivityPub federation connects installations with WriteFreely, Plume and other compatible platforms.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Distraction-free, auto-saving writing environment.
- Create and manage multiple blogs from a single account.
- Publish posts to multiple blogs.
- Connect with other communities through ActivityPub federation.
- Public and private community modes.
- OAuth 2.0 support for integrating existing user accounts.
- Organise articles using hashtags.
- Create static pages by pinning regular posts.
- Save unpublished posts as drafts.
- Localised in more than 20 languages.
- Supports non-Latin and right-to-left scripts.
- Collects minimal information about writers.
- Uses SQLite, MySQL or MariaDB for data storage.
- Distributed as a standalone Go binary.
- Docker deployment is supported.
Website: github.com/writefreely/writefreely
Support:
Developer: Musing Studio LLC
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
WriteFreely is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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