Static Website Generators

Post by danneu » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

freshyill wrote: post #128

yannovitch wrote: post #120

The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…

That would be absolutely awful. Imagine if every site did that. Would this be a site you would want to visit? Maybe what you want to do is have a link that sends you to the HN submission page with the fields pre-populated. That wouldn't be so bad.

Post by andrewmunsell » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 3:36 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #124

andrewmunsell wrote: post #30

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Also sort of a related, shameless plug-- I've been working on Formingo ( https://www.formingo.co ), a form processing service for static sites so you can receive your form submissions directly to your email without the need for server side code or your own backend. I've actually had a couple people ask me about comment systems that were an alternative to (and more simple than) Disqus, so it's cool to see someone work…

Your API is exactly what I would expect to see from such a service. Your pricing is also exactly what I would expect to see, so props. I only need a POST endpoint that will accept a few parameters and redirect back to my success page, and I will definitely keep your service in mind for that. Although, how do you keep everyone from sending spam from you?

Post by andrewl » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 3:44 PM UTC

andrewmunsell wrote: post #194

andrewl wrote: post #144

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Formingo looks good. But one thing I'd like is the ability to hide my email address so it doesn't get picked up by spammers. The current setup shows the address plainly in the page source. Could the action field take some sort of identifier number or hash, as in: /submit/12345 Then your system looks up 12345 and sees it means john@example.com.

You can sign up ( https://www.formingo.co/register ) for a free account that lets you create forms that hide your email address (along with pre-verify your email address and domains so you don't have to click a verification link every time you add a form to a new URL/email address combo) :)

Post by pietroalbini » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 3:52 PM UTC

lsaferite wrote: post #171

pietroalbini wrote: post #155

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Isn't https://www.getlektor.com what you're looking for?

I think the flat-file part is a breaker for my current needs unfortunately. But, being OSS I could perhaps fix that, so I'll add it to my short-list of possible solutions.

Post by marktangotango » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #124

andrewmunsell wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also sort of a related, shameless plug-- I've been working on Formingo ( https://www.formingo.co ), a form processing service for static sites so you can receive your form submissions directly to your email without the need for server side code or your own backend. I've actually had a couple people ask me about comment systems that were an alternative to (and more simple than) Disqus, so it's cool to see someone work…

Your API is exactly what I would expect to see from such a service. Your pricing is also exactly what I would expect to see, so props. I only need a POST endpoint that will accept a few parameters and redirect back to my success page, and I will definitely keep your service in mind for that. Although, how do you keep everyone from sending spam from you?