The true and best open source stuff is not developed for profit. Once it is, its only a matter of time because, guess what, software development is never really profitable no matter how much you piss off your user base.
Don't get me wrong: nothing bad in seeking profit, I do it myself too, I don't live of thin air...
But true open source projects are not developed by seeking sustainability and profit out of it. I steer away from any such project because it's doomed sooner or later and history is full of those projects.
A all my services are behind pam-auth, so nobody unless autheorized can see any subpaths. That fix it for security.
And that make it that browser will ask you to save password and login for each subdomain... But only once for a subpaths.
But beside this, is freedom of choice such difficult to grasp? My use cases are not yours, better be free to choose rather than forced, isn't it?
I do have few subdomains as well, I know perfectly how to automatize them and in fact I do, but I don't like having two ways and specially not just because some Dev don't want to look into supporting subpaths. The number of services not supporting subpaths is the vast minority, so there must be enough people wanting to use them after all. And in all cases, they don't support subpaths because framework don't support them (immich) or because devs don't care (ha).
Stuff like gitea, gerrit, WordPress, all wiki's I ever tried, arrs, jellyfin, podfetch are just the first that pops into my mind that I use and support subpaths.
The service runs as an unpriviledged user, even if, at worst, an intruder would delete or replace the wiki itself. Even the php-fpm behind it runs as that unpriviledged user and is not shared with any other service.
I doubt an attacker could do anything worse than DoS on the wiki itself.
Anyway, beefy HP laptop with 32gb ram and Xeon CPU to run all services. 3 RAID-1 (Linux sw raid) usb3 volumes to host all services and data.
Two isp's: Vodafone FVA 5G (data capped) for general navigation and Fastweb FTTC (low speed but uncapped) for backup access and torrent/Usenet downloads.
Gentoo Linux all the way and podman, but as much limited as possible: only immich (that's impossible to host on bare metal due to devs questionable choices).
Services: WebDAV/webcal/etc wiki, more stuff, arrs, immich, podfetch, and a few more.
Require a subdinain should not be mandatory in 2024.
Sub paths should be such a basic feature that's ridiculous devs don't even take that into consideration.
Why? Because a software requiring absolute paths is as old and obsolete as an msdos program, and the only real reason it happens today is... Bad design choices or limited frameworks.
My internet speed doesn't allow for this unfortunately. On Usenet I can reach 1mb/sec when lucky. And 6Tb of stuff takes time to find and download again.
Tdarr looks great, but I don't love Foss software which have paid plans attached. Can it be used really for free if I have one server and plan to do all transcoding there?
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For it to be, you need a solid paying user base. Which is not the case at hand.
Very often also at.enterprise level the big money is in training, support and courses rather than in the software licenses per se.