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What is a flat-file CMS? What are CMSs that aren't flat-file? How many CMSs are there now? How come people are still making more? Why isn't this a boring, fair

by twic 3y ago

What is a flat-file CMS? What are CMSs that aren't flat-file? How many CMSs are there now? How come people are still making more? Why isn't this a boring, fairly stable commodity category the way web servers or something are?

LeonB 3y ago
A content management system where the content is stored in flat-files like csv. You know, like dos-on-dope - https://github.com/secretGeek/dod https://github.com/secretGeek/dod
arnorhs 3y ago
To be fair, this thing is not new at all
- arnorhs 3y ago
  Exact link first posted 6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743660
mschuster91 3y ago
> How many CMSs are there now? Probably too many [1]. > How come people are still making more? To show they (or their new tech stack) can, to avoid licensing issues, or to have a system tied to their needs. > Why isn't this a boring, fairly stable commodity category the way web servers or something are? For what it's worth, it is... the market is uttery dominated by Wordpress (~43% of all websites, and 63% of all websites using a known CMS), followed by "WYSIWYG builder systems" (Shopify, Wix, Squarespace), Joomla and Drupal. The "large enterprise" market seems to be firmly in the hands of Adobe AEM which is an utter PITA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_sys...
todotask 3y ago
Whole list you can find: https://whatcms.org/Tech_Reports https://whatcms.org/Tech_Reports
graftak 3y ago
Flat file means that there is no database but instead a bunch of text files are used to store data, usually 1 file per entry. Sometimes these files are being kept in memory by the server to offer very fast read access. This is used to keep a stack simple and it makes your data easily versionable.
stakhanov 3y ago
Development of static or near-static websites is just a sector of the software engineering economy that's humongous in size/volume, so it's often bewildering if you're a software engineer in any other space to see just how much activity there is in that space, despite being relatively trivial.
javier2 3y ago
CMSes cover wildly different needs and editors want all kinds of weird things in their articles. And they still need full control of the publishing. This leads to lots of work for us. And I dont even work on cms activity. I also think its weird that this is not more consolidated. One observation: dynamic langauges tend to be more succesful here, possibly because it is faster to make simple plugin systems and simpler to make one-off articles.

by twic 3y ago

LeonB 3y ago

A content management system where the content is stored in flat-files like csv. You know, like dos-on-dope - https://github.com/secretGeek/dod https://github.com/secretGeek/dod

arnorhs 3y ago

To be fair, this thing is not new at all

arnorhs 3y ago
Exact link first posted 6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743660

mschuster91 3y ago

> How many CMSs are there now? Probably too many [1]. > How come people are still making more? To show they (or their new tech stack) can, to avoid licensing issues, or to have a system tied to their needs. > Why isn't this a boring, fairly stable commodity category the way web servers or something are? For what it's worth, it is... the market is uttery dominated by Wordpress (~43% of all websites, and 63% of all websites using a known CMS), followed by "WYSIWYG builder systems" (Shopify, Wix, Squarespace), Joomla and Drupal. The "large enterprise" market seems to be firmly in the hands of Adobe AEM which is an utter PITA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_sys...

todotask 3y ago

Whole list you can find: https://whatcms.org/Tech_Reports https://whatcms.org/Tech_Reports

graftak 3y ago

Flat file means that there is no database but instead a bunch of text files are used to store data, usually 1 file per entry. Sometimes these files are being kept in memory by the server to offer very fast read access. This is used to keep a stack simple and it makes your data easily versionable.

stakhanov 3y ago

Development of static or near-static websites is just a sector of the software engineering economy that's humongous in size/volume, so it's often bewildering if you're a software engineer in any other space to see just how much activity there is in that space, despite being relatively trivial.

javier2 3y ago

CMSes cover wildly different needs and editors want all kinds of weird things in their articles. And they still need full control of the publishing. This leads to lots of work for us. And I dont even work on cms activity. I also think its weird that this is not more consolidated. One observation: dynamic langauges tend to be more succesful here, possibly because it is faster to make simple plugin systems and simpler to make one-off articles.