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This is great HN fodder but IMO, it's b/s. I think what's being missed here is that yes there are sites being built using Webflow / Shopify / whatever. And the
by dmje 2y ago
This is great HN fodder but IMO, it's b/s.
I think what's being missed here is that yes there are sites being built using Webflow / Shopify / whatever. And there are solutions for landing pages, or simple blog sites. And yes, flat file stuff with a GruntNodeDockerWhatever deploy pipeline is always going to make dev types happy.
But this is missing a big old chunk of people - those with relatively complex sites with a fair amount of content (say, I dunno, 100-1000+ pages), the requirement to link between pages, custom taxonomies, custom posts, have custom fields, multiple authors, different roles, requirements on things like member access, an API, feeds...
I think you'd be hard pushed to name a solution that isn't 1) Drupal (cos no-one wants to go there) or 2) Bespoke and stupidly expensive.
WordPress gets a bad rap on HN, some of which is warranted. But I also think there is a lot of hate which is unfounded, possibly from people who haven't touched it in years and years.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoSidebar: Drupal is mostly a testament to industry disinterest in talking clients out of shit they heard about at a business conference. If I had 10% of the website budget overspend I have personally witnessed due to some combination of headass design, oh-there's-a-module-for-that, and GRAB YOUR ANKLES IT"S TIME TO MIGRATE, I would have retired to a private island years ago.