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I understand you could use a tool like superhive to create a wordpress type blog or your own full front end using Ecency for example as it is fully open source.

Now that I didn’t know, shall look it up

I am pretty sure that slothbuzz for example used the ecency open source to create their front end @nicklewis

Yes, that was the one I was thinking off! Looks pretty good too.

Yeah it is pretty cool, did Alive use it too, I can't remember now

No, Alive had their own front end. I just checked and still running:

https://www.wearealiveand.social/

Found it and the codebase is ecency-vision. I can fork it and create a bespoke front-end with it for nicklewis.blog potentially!

Oh now you are talking!