WriteFreely vs Write.as? (Photo upload and SMTP)

[antranigv]

Greetings all,

First of all, thank you for this amazing software, I hope more people use it each day, these are the tools that will keep the open web alive.

So, I just installed WriteFreely on a FreeBSD server deployed at օրագիր.հայ and I really want to understand the difference between WriteFreely and Write.as

My main interests are:

Photo upload? can users upload photos? if not, is there a workaround?
SMTP support during registration for verification and password reset

Thanks all folks!

[cjeller1592]

Hi @antranigv! WriteFreely currently doesn’t have a native photo upload feature or SMTP support. Both features are on our roadmap though (SMTP and photos respectively).

If you’d like more context to the differences between Write.as & WriteFreely, I’d recommend looking at the below forum post by @matt:

Differences between Write.as and WriteFreely

Write.as is our official instance of WriteFreely, and includes additional functionality on top of the base product. Here’s a list of the differences, and reasons they’re not included in WF. Anonymous (no-signup) publishing. We left this out of WF because while it’s a nice feature, it requires an immense amount of admin work to keep spam and abuse at bay. Most admins would probably decide that the feature isn’t worth the trouble. Email publishing. This is a fairly complex feature that we ul…

Hope that helps!