Family Web forum

Gramps Web
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Gramps Web is an awesome web app that allows many people to learn about your family history without installing and learning complicated apps and is easily available to older users. It would be great to have your own family web forum on your family website, where relatives all over the world could get acquainted, share family photos, and contribute to your project.

This could easily be implemented as a standalone app tied to a second-level domain name accessible through a customized in administration section main navigation bar with user-defined links, or even include the forum engine as part of the Gramps Web addon, similar to Chat AI app.

What do you think about that?

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@Vas
I am missing the specific “Idea” in this posting.

  • Gramps Web exists.
  • It can be set up on a hosting service provider with a dedicated IP address for the default folder
  • if you have domain, you can configure a subdomain to point to a dedicated IP address
  • if you have the skills to configure a server on home network, you can install Gramps Web to a home server (or even a Raspberry Pi)
  • Gramps Web has an AI chat bot option
  • if you are running forum software, you could link it to an independent incidence of Gramps Web

What part is missing?

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Currently it requires editing Gramps Web front-end source code to add user defined web links. This procedure have to be repeated with every Gramps Web update. I would like to have main navigation bar customizable by user-defined links to related resources. Moreover I make a rebranding of Gramps Web front-end at my website so it’s quite time-consuming.

Want to make a survey if this feature would be useful to users as a ready-made solution.

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Thanks. That is a clearer objective.

I will now move this thread from Ideas to Gramps Web category.

@DavidMStraub is winding up an all-consuming development campaign for Gramps Web compatibility with Gramps 6.0 (for desktops). Or, at least the 1st phase of it. There will be some bugs to shake out.

That means that there is a backlog of critical support issues.

This might be a good task if recruiting another developer for non-core Gramps Web features.