Joomla! vs Write Freely: What are the differences?
Developers describe Joomla! as "A content management system helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications". Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it. On the other hand, Write Freely is detailed as "Minimalist, federated blogging platform". WriteFreely is a beautifully pared-down blogging platform that's simple on the surface, yet powerful underneath. It's designed to be flexible and share your writing widely, so it's built around plain text and can publish to the fediverse via ActivityPub. It's easy to install and lightweight.
Joomla! and Write Freely can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Joomla! are:
- User Management
- Media Manager
- Language Manager
On the other hand, Write Freely provides the following key features:
- Start a blog for yourself, or host a community of writers
- Form larger federated networks, and interact over modern protocols like ActivityPub
- Write on a dead-simple, distraction-free and super fast editor
Joomla! and Write Freely are both open source tools. It seems that Joomla! with 3.29K GitHub stars and 2.88K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Write Freely with 1.11K GitHub stars and 51 GitHub forks.