I’m another conflicted person on this. I ran Tiny for years, so I never hated it. But it had so many updates that assumed that I’d know in advance to update something on the system (PHP libraries, database schema, etc.), and then putting the git repository behind Cloudflare led to a cycle of notifications that I needed an update and then waiting for Brigadoon to reemerge so that I could pull the latest source. And any time that I needed to look for a solution to a problem, reading through the forums made me regret the choice a tiny bit more.

It’s reasonable software, but I ended up moving to Fresh RSS on an in-house server, and that has gone better, but I hope that the Tiny community pulls together something better to keep the space diverse.

In my case (not necessarily your case, of course), the cheapest selling-point has become that I already have a browser open for almost everything else, so that’s one less thing to install and check in on. But it’s also easier to keep up to date reading when individual computers have problems and usually has a nicer API for scripting, if you need that sort of thing.

I developed this script for creating permanent/static archives of social media exports, so it’s not a full solution - not a web service, expects file inputs, uses a probably incomplete list of shorteners to avoid pulling real pages - but it along with the shorteners.txt file in the same repository, iterating to find a domain not on the list, might at least inspire a solution, if it’s not good for your specific cases.

I buy it.

As it turns out, a couple of months ago when a laptop crapped out at an inopportune time, I needed to retreat to a much older machine with barely enough memory to keep a browser running all day. As I tried to work out a recovery plan for the things that didn’t seem properly backed up (they were, just not where I expected them), I remembered that I had a couple of old Raspberry Pi units that I never did much with, and decided that could take the load off of the laptop if I tossed them in the corner.

So far, I have Code Server to substitute for Visual Studio Code, Cryptpad for Libre Office, Forgejo just because I really should have done that a long time ago, Fresh RSS for a rotating list of RSS readers since I dropped my Internet-accessible Tiny Tiny RSS installation, Inf Cloud and Radicale for a calendar/address book, Jellyfin that used to run on the then-in-use old laptop, Snappy Mail for Thunderbird and the bunch of heavy webpages from mail providers, YaCy because I’ve wanted to use it more for many years, and a few others.

Moving onto a more functional computer, I decided to keep the servers running, because the setup works about as well as the desktop setups that I’ve run for years, if I use a few pinned tabs. I’m sure that I’ll scream about it when something goes wrong, but it does the job…

Yeah, it’s on the local network, so I’ll need to mess around with aliases again. And they seem to think that it’s possible to set this up on a subfolder, with the APP_SUBDIRECTORY variable, but it doesn’t exactly give the impression of rigorous deployment testing, so you’re right that I should assume that part doesn’t work. Thanks!