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More discussion today about WordPress, and people who suggest switching to a static site generator:
Jason Lefkowitz on 15 October 2024:
The WordPress drama has brought forward a bunch of nerds advocating different systems they think WordPress users should switch to, which mostly have illustrated how few nerds understand what makes WordPress appealing to its users in the first place
And:
Like, if your pitch for a system to replace WordPress starts with "first, learn Markdown and Git," I need you to understand that you are living in a completely different galaxy than the median WordPress user
One of the replies was from tante:
And people who think "dump a bunch of PHP files in a folder" can be replaced by a bunch of dockerized microservices and a textmode readme of 30 lines with 3 subtle mistakes really need to get out more.
All very true, I think. As much as I love the simplicity of a bunch of Markdown files in a Git repository, it's a way of working that doesn't seem to have captured the imaginations of a big swathe of bloggers. Not only that, but it doesn't solve a big part of blogging: managing photos and other files.
The idea of "put these files in a folder on your server, and do everything else via the browser" has been pretty powerful for the last couple of decades. I think it's time is probably over, and it's going to take another ten years to really decline fully. I suspect whatever replaces it will also not involve the command line.