Ask HN: Solution for public crowdsourced content site (with editorial control)

1 points by doubleocherry 5 years ago | 1 comment

Hi HN:

First of all, yes, I obviously know a wiki could serve this purpose, but I'm a fan of static sites due to performance, scale, and security.

I am looking at building a site that is essentially a wiki: it will accepts crowd sourced edits and page updates. However, I'd also like to manage content change requests via git and deploy via Netlify.

Ideally, the architecture I'd prefer is:

Content version controlled via GitHub

Deployment via Netlify or Github pages

External users could login to edit pages Google/Facebook/GitHub Oauth?

Edits are wiki-like: Public edit requests are possible via a wiki-like interface, but require approval

Edits appear behind the scenes as pull requests - it's possible to view change history via github

Is there anything out there like this? I've been checking out Gollum and netlify-cms, but I'm not entirely certain either of these really match what I would ideally like. Any suggestions?

tg3 5 years ago |

I'm planning to build something like this with Next.js / Vercel. All of the changes will be managed via GitHub Pull Requests (so no need for any other authentication) with automatic deployment on Vercel.