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Or a WordPress site with a nice looking theme on your own domain with total control over your own publishing platform, with portability. WordPress is the Linux

Or a WordPress site with a nice looking theme on your own domain with total control over your own publishing platform, with portability. WordPress is the Linux of publishing. Publishing on Medium or Substack is like building apps on the iPhone or applications on Windows: you’re there by the good graces of the platform owner and if you’re ever a strategic risk or opportunity to them, you’re dead.

huijzer 4y ago
For developers, static site generators are the better choice IMO.
- peatfreak 4y ago
  Why is this? I'm drawn to WP for my own personal site, because there is a critical mass behind WP, it's a transferable skill, there's a lot of nice stuff that comes out of the box, there's a well established web design community around it, etc. I've seen so many static site generators come and go over the past decade that the number of options now is just dizzying. From what I've seen, they all try to be "minimalist"... until the developer realizes there's a lot more work and expertise involved in "minimalist" design than they originally thought, and they grow, bit by bit by bit, etc, ... Then somebody sees these "bloated" SSG's and decides to reinvent the wheel by creating their own "minimalist" SSG with no baggage and thus the cycle starts all over again.
  - huijzer 4y ago
    > Why is this? Because why put your admin interface out to the web if you can also just send some HTML files to a static site hoster. The static hosters are nearly impossible to hack and they can be heavily optimised because they only serve files. As another argument, software engineers are used to Git meaning that you’ll have a proper backup for your site.
- mmaunder 4y ago
  I disagree. They’re fashionable but are more work and don’t provide benefits that justify the additional work. Just install WP out the box and let it run on the latest version of PHP which is blazingly fast. Get all the ease of use and flexibility that comes from default WP without the complexity.
  - huijzer 4y ago
    Wordpress sites also take some work.

huijzer 4y ago

For developers, static site generators are the better choice IMO.

peatfreak 4y ago
Why is this? I'm drawn to WP for my own personal site, because there is a critical mass behind WP, it's a transferable skill, there's a lot of nice stuff that comes out of the box, there's a well established web design community around it, etc. I've seen so many static site generators come and go over the past decade that the number of options now is just dizzying. From what I've seen, they all try to be "minimalist"... until the developer realizes there's a lot more work and expertise involved in "minimalist" design than they originally thought, and they grow, bit by bit by bit, etc, ... Then somebody sees these "bloated" SSG's and decides to reinvent the wheel by creating their own "minimalist" SSG with no baggage and thus the cycle starts all over again.
- huijzer 4y ago
  > Why is this? Because why put your admin interface out to the web if you can also just send some HTML files to a static site hoster. The static hosters are nearly impossible to hack and they can be heavily optimised because they only serve files. As another argument, software engineers are used to Git meaning that you’ll have a proper backup for your site.
mmaunder 4y ago
I disagree. They’re fashionable but are more work and don’t provide benefits that justify the additional work. Just install WP out the box and let it run on the latest version of PHP which is blazingly fast. Get all the ease of use and flexibility that comes from default WP without the complexity.
- huijzer 4y ago
  Wordpress sites also take some work.