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/