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Re: Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

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Post by hunvreus »

canadiantim wrote: post #36
hunvreus wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it does HOWEVER for now you need to log in with GitHub. I don't think it's too huge of a hassle with most people, but there is a bit of friction. I am planning to add an "invite by email" feature that will allow you to add users by entering their email address. They can then log in without a GitHub account and use it the same way you do (although the commit will be associated to a Pages CMS GitHub app).

The invite by email feature sounds great, but as you say setting up a github account for a client isn't that much friction. It's not something I'm bothered by at all, but being able to use just an email is definitely supremely more preferable. Very exciting work. As I'm quite enthused by the project, I hope you don't mind if I offer some hopefully helpful feedback: - For the video on your landing page, ideally the yo…

> For the video on your landing page, ideally the youtube would be embedded so it doesn't open another window

Yep.

> In regards to the video, while I love the content and info, it's not the most marketing friendly. It's over 2 minutes before the background of the video even changes. Ideally the video would get into the demo portion muuuch quicker.

Yep. I also recorded it when I was sick, and my mic is pretty horrid.

> I clicked on this hackernews link, clicked through to your landing page, scrolled around, but really didn't get a grasp of what it was offering or how it worked or who or what it was for (admittedly I was prly lazy reading). Only after I watched the video, heard you specifically mention eleventy (which I personally use a lot) was my interest piqued enough to actually engage in the content and understand it more. Glad I did, but I gotta feel there's some better way of presenting what you're doing. I quite liked your calling it a wordpress-like CMS over top an existing static site stack.

I definitely need to level up my marketing game.

Thanks a lot for the input.

Re: Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

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Post by hunvreus »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #43

Nice. Does it support multi-projects? I got a lot of sites and dont like to have to have a seperate CMS for each.

Yes:

- There's an online version, you can just go to https://app.pagescms.org

- You can switch between repos and branches straight from the interface (just click on the repo menu in the top left corner).

Re: Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

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Post by Arelius »

hunvreus wrote: post #18
__jonas wrote: post #9

Nice to see a new entry in the git based CMS realm, I really appreciate that you seem to understand the importance of a good user experience for editing content! Am I gathering correctly that this does not actually require you to host a backend somewhere? The GitHub OAuth will work even if the CMS is just statically hosted on Cloudflare Pages / Netlify? This was something I always found a little strange about Netlify…

That's the lightest I could figure out to get OAuth rolling, but it does almost nothing and doesn't store your token. You don't have to host anything if you use the online version, but you can self host it fairly easily for free on Cloudflare Pages: https://pagescms.org/docs/development/#deploy-on-cloudflare

Yeah, github OAuth doesnt support a web client only flow, so you at least need a backend to forward along the response to the client.

It's pretty much just that cross site requests are disabled.

Re: Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

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Post by Arelius »

hunvreus wrote: post #37
posterguy wrote: post #34

why this over keystatic or statamic or (insert upcoming decap replacement)?

They all look great, but if you were pressing me for a comment: - Keystatic: I want it to run online, not as a local app. - Statamic: I don't want an opinionated, full-stack CMS + SSG. I want to manage content in whatever app/website I'm building whether it's Next.js, Astro, 11ty... - Decap CMS: I mentioned it in my post, I always found Decap's UI/UX pretty lacking, and the DX wasn't that smooth either. With that bei…

There is als Sveltia cms, based on Decap's backend but with a redone UI

https://github.com/sveltia/sveltia-cms

Re: Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

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Post by hunvreus »

Arelius wrote: post #46
hunvreus wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They all look great, but if you were pressing me for a comment: - Keystatic: I want it to run online, not as a local app. - Statamic: I don't want an opinionated, full-stack CMS + SSG. I want to manage content in whatever app/website I'm building whether it's Next.js, Astro, 11ty... - Decap CMS: I mentioned it in my post, I always found Decap's UI/UX pretty lacking, and the DX wasn't that smooth either. With that bei…

There is als Sveltia cms, based on Decap's backend but with a redone UI https://github.com/sveltia/sveltia-cms

I saw that but couldn't see an actual demo. I'll have to deploy it and see for myself.
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