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Not the ‘community’ you enjoy the most but the free, as in beer, self hosted, free and open-source forum software used to run it, which could be an awful community with a fantastic software.

With all the love for self-hosted personal blogging. What’s the easiest/secure way to set up one?

This is aimed at a 14 year old with no prior development experience apart from messing about with Wordpress, simple HTML and basic CSS that can follow tutorials well, specially video showing how it’s done.

Alternative for Cloudflare CDN/Analytics free tier?

Please consider the budget for a 14 year old with free and open-source stuff when possible.

I have nothing to do with domain squatting, but I do own a .co.uk domain for over 20 years and 18 years ago I tried to buy the .com from what I then found out was a squatter, out of principle I turned their offer down and the .com domain remains vacant, it’s not a particular interesting or valuable domain, so I’m not surprised no one else bought it.

Fast forward to a few months ago, and I let one other domain expire, it was for a brand I was creating, the domain was a made up word and a squatter registered that domain as soon as it expired, assuming some service registered it without any human supervision as that made up word holds no value to anyone else and I consciously decided to let it expire.

Since I made up that word and it was 14 characters long, are they just going to keep it for 20+ years?

This just made me wonder how many vacant domains we have today, that it must still be (unethical and) profitable and if it’s time to do something about it?