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The issue with static sites is they can't do comments.
by RobotToaster 6mo ago
The issue with static sites is they can't do comments.
- Closi 6mo agoThey can - it’s just more complex. You just put the comments into something like firebase/supabase etc or use one of many off the shelf solutions. Free tier is fine.
- egypturnash 6mo ago"Just" sure is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence.
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- RobotToaster 6mo agoIs it still a static site then? You could just do it with CGI scripts, without the external dependencies, but that isn't really static either.
- DANmode 6mo agoI run static sites for my clients, with embedded forms. Performance says they’re definitely still static sites!
- Closi 6mo agoDepends what you would call that architecture then I guess! I run my local theatre website by writing the posts in markdown, and then have some github actions which use Hugo to turn it in to a static site and then uploads the content to an S3 bucket. The site itself has dynamic content like within-website ticket buying from eventbrite and a contact form that sends email using an external service. It also calls in things like google analytics. Does this still count as static? Personally I think so, Even though there are 'dynamic' elements. IMO static refers more about how the content is served rather than saying that the content can’t be ‘dynamic’ as lots of Wordpress sites have static/non interactive content but still regenerate the html on each page load.
- input_sh 6mo agoAstro would call that an island: https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/ https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/ I guess this is our answer to the question of why Cloudflare acquired it in the first place.
- __david__ 6mo agoIsn’t that just the way old school Perl/ruby/php web apps from 20 years ago did things but with a fancy name?
- qingcharles 6mo agoI bet 99.9% of live Wordpress sites no longer have comments enabled.
- spankalee 6mo agoSo many WordPress sites don't have comments.