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Static would definitely be easier. I finally got MediaWiki working but it's really picky about what info I can enter and how I have to enter it. And if something goes wrong, it'll be a pain to get everything installed and working again, even with backups.
But Peertube was the main obstacle. Now that that's done, I don't think the website will be a big issue. The real issue is scanning thousands of photos, organizing them, and coming up with a privacy policy. I'll probably have to require a login because people don't want their photos out there exposed to the internet, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Just brainstorming here. Maybe I'll store all the personal info in MySQL (which I'm pretty good at) and serve the individual pages with Joomla. Having all the info in a database will make it easier to migrate to whatever the next platform will be. And the only people listed on the site will be already dead, so that cuts down on privacy/identity theft issues.
I've been dreading starting this project for over a year, but now that I've started, it's not so bad - kind of fun, actually.
I recently heard of Jeckyll but haven’t tried it yet. I couldn’t remember the name, and found a list of similar projects here https://kinsta.com/blog/static-site-generator/ but don’t know if any are any good, but the article doesn’t seem like trash. Maybe one will work for you.
Those look pretty good. I'm going to take a few days and try out some different things.