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There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and others. Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared hosting providers (2) no one who us
by fny 10mo ago
There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and others.
Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared hosting providers (2) no one who uses a CMS cares about the backend (3) Wordpress has massive ecosystem
- evolve2k 10mo agoMy personal theory on why rails never beat out Wordpress (beyond that it has different goals), is that any attempts to make a Wordpress competitor never addressed end-user plugins. Ruby has package management called Gems. And while these are easy and powerful for a programmer to call on; they aren’t loaded using a visual interface and be able to be dynamically loaded by the end user as is the experience with Wordpress. To make a real Wordpress competitor; a system of user-self-installable plugins needs to also be created. Now that’s harder than just making a CMS but it’s fuctionality that makes many so called Wordpress competitors non-starters.