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Post by oshea » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

kabacha wrote: post #51

This is a such a weird niche. Personally I love "business card" websites but I feel that this is not a correct way to approach this. Why stick with this weird format instead of some responsive grid/flex design? Why only limit to two slide pages? It seems like you guys reinventing wheel here and burdening yourself with unecessary restrictions. I swear the first person to adapt hugo/lektor/pelican for casual mobile mar…

Curious why you think adapting huge/lektor/pelican to mobile is an opportunity. Mobile app for wordpress seems to do the job quite well. You can create a site, add pages, add posts, pick a theme, publish etc without needing a desktop. Maybe your point is that something that's a static backend could compete aggressively on price vs something like wordpress? Are people trying / needing to publish on casual mobile envs?

Post by whalabi » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:39 PM UTC

collistaeed wrote: post #34

emdowling wrote: post #32

You need to get this on Android. For the majority of iOS users, they have access to a larger screen so will prefer creating on that. The problem this solves is less pronounced. But for emerging markets, their Android phone is the first and only access to the internet. Designing a website on a phone isn’t a novelty, it’s the only way they’ll ever move beyond social media profiles to establish an online presence.

Agree completely! We have a spike this week to look at the work to roll out an Android version. That said, we also need to weigh up the roadmap overall and tradeoffs of what the iOS app users need out of the gates

Curious, why didn't you guys decide to use a cross platform framework?

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