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Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by miragecraft »

I think a hosted solution is best, unless you know for sure that they’ll always have a developer willing to volunteer their time to manage their server and keep everything up to date.

The cost is peanuts compared to the hourly rate of a developer to personally manage and keep secure their website for them.

As for static site, you think a non technical person can handle a static site generator and deploying to GitHub Pages? I doubt it.

Often times it gets very expensive to cheap out on things.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by mierz00 »

mkranjec wrote: post #3
leo_researchly wrote: post #2

We recently landed on Strapi. There’s an open source version but we use the hosted one (for now). All in all good. There are a few quirks in the UI (sometimes smaller changes weren’t saved - although this might be a user issue from my side) and the markdown editor could be more user friendly. We are sticking with it for now because it’s indeed good enough and I haven’t found any better options (give the price).

IIRC Strapi is a great option for green field projects. C/p from their docs: "Strapi applications are not meant to be connected to a pre-existing database, not created by a Strapi application, nor connected to a Strapi v3 database. The Strapi team will not support such attempts. Attempting to connect to an unsupported database may, and most likely will, result in lost data." Unfortunately, most of the time I do not h…

I’m curious as to why you need to use a pre-existing database?

Can you run some migration scripts to port the old database content into a new CMS?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by nomoreofthat »

skeptrune wrote: post #37
pembrook wrote: post #7

I wouldn't be setting up a static site + headless CMS for a non-technical organization. This is basically asking for a constant headache. Just set them up on a website builder like Webflow/Framer/Ycode/Squarespace/etc that has a CMS built in.

If there's a no-code way to edit content and AI can work with the rest then I think it's fine.

I honestly can’t tell whether this comment is satire or this site is just full of people who have no ability (or no interest) in understanding other people. You don’t need to be a psychologist or even have a good understanding of other people to recognize what a ridiculous suggestion this is. You just have to care a tiny little bit about other people. Is that really too much to expect?

Though given that the psychopath alleged-incestuous-rapist Sam Altman has been the top user on the site since literally day one I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by h4ch1 »

mikae1 wrote: post #52
h4ch1 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, personally I never really cared for dated paths, seems like a problem that's solved by metadata defined in the frontmatter. my-blog-article-title.md seems enough, and dates usually feel like clutter, since titles are distinct as they are and you don't really need the date in the filename to do anything useful. But again, different people prefer different setups.

> my-blog-article-title.md seems enough, and dates usually feel like clutter, since titles are distinct as they are and you don't really need the date in the filename to do anything useful. I love to see when a page by posted just by looking at the URL. It also avoids naming collisions. For a static site, not rendered from a db, I wouldn't want to store every post ever written in one dir either. How well does that sc…

you're correct, I had mistakenly interpreted your comment as dates in file paths instead of dirpaths, and I would second this, it really gets unwieldy once you have 100k or even 500+ files in a single directory.

Apologies for the miscommunication.

Also

> I love to see when a page by posted just by looking at the URL.

would solve that with a URL path /2015/my-article-title; also creates a nice way to go to articles by year for example by simply navigating to the /2015 route

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by asp_hornet »

nomoreofthat wrote: post #65
skeptrune wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there's a no-code way to edit content and AI can work with the rest then I think it's fine.

I honestly can’t tell whether this comment is satire or this site is just full of people who have no ability (or no interest) in understanding other people. You don’t need to be a psychologist or even have a good understanding of other people to recognize what a ridiculous suggestion this is. You just have to care a tiny little bit about other people. Is that really too much to expect? Though given that the psychopat…

Fortunately the top comment seems to be a Wordpress recommendation but I agree with your sentiment completely. The industry has lost the care for people.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by fragmede »

nomoreofthat wrote: post #65
skeptrune wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there's a no-code way to edit content and AI can work with the rest then I think it's fine.

I honestly can’t tell whether this comment is satire or this site is just full of people who have no ability (or no interest) in understanding other people. You don’t need to be a psychologist or even have a good understanding of other people to recognize what a ridiculous suggestion this is. You just have to care a tiny little bit about other people. Is that really too much to expect? Though given that the psychopat…

ctrl-f for sama on https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders shows no results, but please, tell us more about how you've generalized everybody here.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by moomoo11 »

You could use notion if you want forms (event sign ups or tracking stuff like inventory). There’s a way to make notion pages a “website”.

It’s something a little easier than Wordpress for non technical people. Nothing is super simple but at least notion can be figured out more easily than code or admin panels. When you’re not there, they won’t be completely in the dark.

Just my 2c.

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