Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together
My wife and I have blogged about every trip since our honeymoon 10 years ago. We took turns writing, but both of us had photos and videos on our phones, and every day they had to be sent back and forth and sorted into the entry. The blog ran on WordPress, and WordPress never got it: not the mobile editing experience, not the video support, not the gallery, and definitely not the together part. You are limited to one author per entry (but you get a bunch of plugins nobody maintains and constant bot attacks on your wp-admin), and every video had to go to YouTube because WordPress does not…
In plain words
Texttile is a blog engine designed for multiple writers to collaborate on entries simultaneously. It allows co-authors to edit text, upload photos and videos, and arrange gallery content together in real time, with built-in conflict prevention so no work is lost when authorship changes hands. The platform runs as a single Docker container with SQLite, requires no external services, and treats video as a native format rather than requiring uploads to third-party sites. It is built for couples, travel bloggers, and other groups who want to write and create together without the limitations of traditional single-author blogging platforms.
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From the sources
Texttile is a blog engine for more than one writer. Everyone on the blog can be in the same entry at the same time, gallery of photos and videos included. One Docker container, SQLite, no other service.
In the maker’s words, at launch
My wife and I have blogged about every trip since our honeymoon 10 years ago. We took turns writing, but both of us had photos and videos on our phones, and every day they had to be sent back and forth and sorted into the entry. The blog ran on WordPress, and WordPress never got it: not the mobile editing experience, not the video support, not the gallery, and definitely not the together part. You are limited to one author per entry (but you get a bunch of plugins nobody maintains and constant bot attacks on your wp-admin), and every video had to go to YouTube because WordPress does not compress video. So I wrote Texttile. Multiple people in the same entry at the same time, uploading and sorting photos AND videos, treated as first-class citizens. The rest follows from how we travel: nothing is loaded from outside (no CDN, no tracker, no captcha, no hosted font), pages stay small, Markdown is stored byte for byte, videos are converted once on your own server, and the whole installation is one Docker container with one volume. Comments, newsletter and stats are built in and stay on your server. There are no roles and no plugins on purpose. Everybody with an account is an admin. It is built for people who trust each other. Try it out with a Demo: https://www.texttile.blog gives you a real blog for 24 hours, and you can keep it if you like. Our Mexico blog runs as demo data at https://demo.texttile.blog. Find also the full background story on my blog: https://www.v01.io/posts/2026/08/texttile/
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