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>"using a CMS feels more like filing your taxes than editing a website" Loved this quote. I've recently realized this when trying to get a family member (mille

• amelius 7y ago
  To add a bit of realism: there may be a time when you wish to add something that was not foreseen by the creators, and then you're back at filling tax forms again. It might even be worse because there's no big community yet to provide help. Every CMS out there started with the goal to make things simple, so why should it be different this time?
  • ncphillips 7y ago
    Tina maintainer here! Tina is not a CMS in the traditional sense. It’s a set of tools that let you make your site it’s own CMS. It’s going to be different, because it’s not the same kind of code. It’s not an app, or even a framework, it’s a ecosystem of libraries. The way it’s structured makes it really easy to extend or customize behaviour. One of our biggest goals is to build that community you’re talking about, and provide as much help as possible to newcomers. At Forestry—the sponsor company—we take support seriously and will continue to do so with Tina :)
• chrismorgan 7y ago
  I’m guessing that quote was written by an American. For comparison, I filed my Australian taxes on Friday. My tax affairs are admittedly fairly simple, but I comfortably finished the whole process in under ten minutes including looking up a few things for such items as deductions for my home office. Not all taxes are hard, just as not all CMSes are hard.
  • ncphillips 7y ago
    The quote was more about the experience (i.e. just a long list of form fields with no context) rather then about the difficulty.