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> However, even if I feel blogging is about to have a come back, a place for bloggers to blog is limited more than ever. You've got to be joking. Starting a bl
by cercatrova 6y ago
> However, even if I feel blogging is about to have a come back, a place for bloggers to blog is limited more than ever.
You've got to be joking. Starting a blog has never been easier. You can use Wordpress, sure, but there are many other options like Ghost, Quora, SquareSpace (and other website creators like WebFlow), and even some more niche ones like Posthaven.
- OJFord 6y agoA tonne of options doesn't necessarily make it 'easier'. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
- cercatrova 6y agoSure, but this point is not the same as the author's. The author was saying how every option is bad, when they didn't even look at all of the options. There are clearly some very good options, as I pointed out. That one might have paralysis in choosing one of them is incidental to the main point that, yes, there are better options than Wordpress.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoAren't those all more of the same though? My take away from the post was that what is missing is a user-friendly (noob friendly) static site generator.
- cercatrova 6y agoThese are all user-friendly static site generators, basically. They connect a user interface to the backend which is basically a CMS.
- klelatti 6y agoI'm confused! If a service connects to a database on the backend then it isn't a SSG?
- cercatrova 6y agoHuh? I never said anything about being or not being a SSG.
- klelatti 6y ago> These are all user-friendly static site generators, basically.
- cercatrova 6y agoI meant in terms of whether a backend constitutes a SSG or not. What's your point, I didn't understand it?
- klelatti 6y agoSorry probably crossed wires. Thought you were saying that the examples (eg Ghost) were all SSGs?
- cercatrova 6y agoI meant that they could create static (or static-like) sites in terms of what a reader would expect, ie changes propagate through a CDN, they have a CMS they can use to edit pages, etc. So it's not that the author wants a SSG necessarily, they just want something easy to use that creates websites, which is basically what Ghost and others do.
- klelatti 6y agoThanks and understood. Agreed that having a CDN makes Ghost etc much more SSG like.