Feb 08, 2021 07:00:00

'Haven' for those who are tired of SNS advertising and tracking has appeared, invitation system to host the website by yourself

The spread of SNS has made it very easy to share information with people close to us, but

problems related to the handling of advertisements and personal information have also arisen. There is also a blog as a means of information sharing, but it is not suitable for information sharing limited to people close to you .... Therefore, it is special for the purpose of 'sharing information to people close to you without advertising and tracking'. The new software ' Haven ' has been released.

Haven: Host your own private blog
https://havenweb.org/index.html

Regarding the reason for developing Haven, developer mawise commented, 'I wanted a free, ad-free service that allows me to share photos with someone.' mawise tried WordPress to share his daughter's photo with friends, but was confused by the large number of plugins and complex settings and was plagued by spam emails. If you use SNS such as Facebook and Instagram, you will be freed from such complexity, but there are problems with advertising and tracking. Haven is software that extracts only the part of 'information sharing with close people' from existing CMS and SNS.

Haven is 'invitation-only', and there are three roles, 'Subscriber' that can only view Haven, 'Publisher' that can post articles, and 'Admin' that is an administrator, and invite to one of them. Only those who have been published can view the information. Instead of disseminating information to the whole world like a blog, it is possible to share it only with specific people such as relatives and friends.

Haven can share texts and images in blog format. You can host it on your own server, so you don't have to worry about advertising or tracking. Also, the page is so simple that it can be displayed fast, says mawise.

The edit screen is also simple and can be written in

Markdown format.

In addition, it has convenient functions such as CSS custom function and RSS delivery function. If you want to use Haven, you can use the deployment script for AWS and Raspberry Pi published on GitHub.

havenweb / haven: Self-hostable private blogging
https://github.com/havenweb/haven

In addition, since the above script for Raspberry Pi is supposed to be executed by the 'pi' user, when I tried to execute it as a user other than 'pi' on the GCP instance, it could not be deployed as it is. did.

If you cannot prepare your own hosting environment, you can request hosting for $ 5 per month (about 500 yen) from the URL below.

Haven Free Trial
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeRn_I_FE65D9tc-PXbqC5vof0j0ETPqC4Wzh1nkSea4Httw/viewform