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It seems like YDNW is like a CMS that uses Google Drive as the "backend"/admin UI. Personally, I see the benefits to using GDrive as the backend, but instead o
by l_t 8y ago
It seems like YDNW is like a CMS that uses Google Drive as the "backend"/admin UI.
Personally, I see the benefits to using GDrive as the backend, but instead of having to host a server, I would rather be able to run a static site generator that exports my GDrive folder into some HTML that I can push to a free/cheap hosting provider. Is that something you've considered?
Static site generation would also obviate the concern that Google could "delete your blog" -- at worst, they could delete the source documents, but the published blog would be unaffected.
- askmike 8y agoI do agree that static site generators are preferable for many reasons. But I think that people who want to deal with statically generated files (all technical people) rather write their content in markdown anyway. I don't think there is enough overlap in the two audiences.