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You’re not wrong, but you’re missing the point. The “operations” perspective is the least important perspective on any marketing site/blog. Design flexibility

You’re not wrong, but you’re missing the point. The “operations” perspective is the least important perspective on any marketing site/blog. Design flexibility in production, marketing features and multi-author content production are the only thing that matters. Gatsby is built by developers, for developers. And it’s hilariously out of touch with the needs of anybody else. We’re almost 10 years into the static site ecosystem and there’s still no easy way to do even 1/10th of what Wordpress can do without building everything from scratch and duct taping it together with a rigid headless CMS in the middle.

thayne 6y ago
> The “operations” perspective is the least important perspective on any marketing site/blog. It definitely isn't for the marketing sites and blogs I maintain. Site stability and reliability trump how convenient it is for marketing content creators to release changes. Better to have a site that doesn't have the latest change than a site that is completely down, or worse a site hacked because of a vulnerability in the CMS. Is that true for every site? Absolutely not! Although it seems like it would be for whitehouse.gov.
- pembrook 6y ago
  > Site stability and reliability trump how convenient it is for marketing content creators You’re optimizing for the wrong thing then. Content creation, driving traffic to the site, and converting that traffic is the harder, more important task. Your role is the easiest, most trivial one. On the spectrum of engineering problems, I’d place self driving cars and sentient AI somewhere on the right side labeled difficult. On the left side of the scale, at the far edge labeled easiest, I’d place “keeping a wordpress site online.” 40% of the internet is powered by Wordpress, so I think a few hundred million people have figured it out. On the other hand, 99% of all websites get little to no traffic. Maybe this is the difficult part you should be optimizing for instead?
  - thayne 6y ago
    > On the other hand, 99% of all websites get little to no traffic. Maybe this is the difficult part you should be optimizing for instead? Well, the sites I'm talking about get enough traffic that if they are down for a few minutes people notice, and a single wordpress server isn't enough to handle the traffic ;). If you have little to no traffic that's less of an issue.

thayne 6y ago

> The “operations” perspective is the least important perspective on any marketing site/blog. It definitely isn't for the marketing sites and blogs I maintain. Site stability and reliability trump how convenient it is for marketing content creators to release changes. Better to have a site that doesn't have the latest change than a site that is completely down, or worse a site hacked because of a vulnerability in the CMS. Is that true for every site? Absolutely not! Although it seems like it would be for whitehouse.gov.

pembrook 6y ago
> Site stability and reliability trump how convenient it is for marketing content creators You’re optimizing for the wrong thing then. Content creation, driving traffic to the site, and converting that traffic is the harder, more important task. Your role is the easiest, most trivial one. On the spectrum of engineering problems, I’d place self driving cars and sentient AI somewhere on the right side labeled difficult. On the left side of the scale, at the far edge labeled easiest, I’d place “keeping a wordpress site online.” 40% of the internet is powered by Wordpress, so I think a few hundred million people have figured it out. On the other hand, 99% of all websites get little to no traffic. Maybe this is the difficult part you should be optimizing for instead?
- thayne 6y ago
  > On the other hand, 99% of all websites get little to no traffic. Maybe this is the difficult part you should be optimizing for instead? Well, the sites I'm talking about get enough traffic that if they are down for a few minutes people notice, and a single wordpress server isn't enough to handle the traffic ;). If you have little to no traffic that's less of an issue.