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>Wordpress won inter alia because the cost of the complexity was pushed from the authors to the readers In what way does wordpress push complexity to readers?

• jacques_chester 14y ago
  They have to pay for the rendering of the page for every visit, instead of the author paying for rendering at creation time. At no time did the problem that somehow the page had to be rendered go away.
  • b1daly 14y ago
    Wait a second, wouldn't it be more accurate to say the complexity had been pushed into the browser, affecting the browser developers perhaps. The reader might just have to pay in terms of waiting longer to read. Or do you mean "reader" is the browser software. The thread of the discussion started with (I thought) the difficulty for the non-technical user to install and use a static site generator? I do think the concept of "conservation of complexity" has some analytical value in the design of software systems.
    • jacques_chester 14y ago
      I think that it'll never be a mathematically sound rule, so "Law" is a bit of poetic license. But I think it is a useful heuristic. I've felt this way for a long time about lots of particular design/architecture debates, but this is the first time I've been able to consolidate them to a single statement.