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Came here to post a similar comment. From the perspective of the user, a Blogger or Wordpress site is far simpler than writing Markdown (in vim, no less!), gene
by quanticle 5y ago
Came here to post a similar comment. From the perspective of the user, a Blogger or Wordpress site is far simpler than writing Markdown (in vim, no less!), generating the site, checking it into git, and uploading/pushing to the web server.
Arguing that vim + markdown + static site generator is simpler, and therefore superior to a content management system or blog engine is like arguing that a dirt bike is simpler, and therefore superior to a car. Yes, mechanically, a motorcycle is far simpler than car. But simplicity of implementation leads to complexity of operation, and it's no surprise that most people prefer cars or SUVs for their daily commute, even though the innards of a car are tremendously more complicated than the innards of a dirt bike.
- jcun4128 5y agoIf a basic blog editor like Medium is interesting there's an open source clone of it on GitHub (yabwe). I was looking into it for personal blogging I do like the basic formatting and drag-drop image. Working with content editable is not too bad, turn images to base64 for live preview... but there is also this nice editor already.
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- boris_m 5y agoEquating content management systems with SUV-s doesn't do justice to CMS-s or your argument in general, considering the multitude of environment and other issues with SUV-s. Also, car's simplicity is only an illusion. Anything is simple when other people fix and maintain it for you.