urmel

urmel is brutalist and flat-file microblogging software. It's the spiritual successor to vicco.

Features

• Web interface to draft, publish, edit, and delete posts
• Text formatting
• Atom feed
• Open Graph, Microdata
• Zero dependencies

Missing features

• WYSIWYG editor
• Embedded media
• Comments, webmentions
• ActivityPub
• Composer package

Target audiences

• Hackers — It’s easy to customise.
• Hipsters — It’s crappy, you could use it as a joke.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.3.0
• SSL/TLS certificate

Installation

1. Update config.json.sample and rename it to config.json.
   • Optionally, you can translate all text strings in classes/l10n.php.
2. Upload everything to a web server. (Yes, this is old-school.)
3. Use your credentials at ?login to access the editor panel.

Text formatting

There is some Markdown-inspired formatting.

Input	Output
**strong** / __strong__	strong
*italic* / _italic_	italic
~~strikethrough~~	strikethrough
>quotation block	quotation block
@code@	code
[https://example.org]	https://example.org
[title](https://example.org)	title

License

urmel is licensed under the EUPL 1.2.