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Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

Very cool. Every existing criticism about static site generators seems to be gone with this approach. Many interesting ideas in there, like the service worker instead of cloud, and an actual git flow in the browser. Looks almost like more than just a static site generator. This could get rid of the cloud itself.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by tyingq »

At the very bottom it is still putting content on Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, etc.

I can't tell if the content is encoded somehow (base64, etc). If not, this will be confusing for search engine crawlers, as they'll find duplicate content, and perhaps rank it higher.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by krsdcbl »

I kinda feel like the premise is already pretty amiss - a simple, small site that serves static pages puts absolutely no demand on "running a server", you're perfectly fine with a basic hosting plan that will require little to zero maintenance and be really cheap.

The idea that you'd have to "run a server" or else "use ready made SaaS platform" feels like a constructed problem.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by Spivak »

mpweiher wrote: post #3

Hmm...it uses the CDN's servers. So "no server" or "getting rid of the server" seems a tad inaccurate.

We have to stop this. Words are either effective at communicating the speakers meaning or not. We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" and so you are only introducing ambiguity by purposely confusing the actual meaning with the literal meanings of the individual words.

If I call someone an asshole nobody is like "but actually an asshole is just one part of..."

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by Spivak »

krsdcbl wrote: post #6

I kinda feel like the premise is already pretty amiss - a simple, small site that serves static pages puts absolutely no demand on "running a server", you're perfectly fine with a basic hosting plan that will require little to zero maintenance and be really cheap. The idea that you'd have to "run a server" or else "use ready made SaaS platform" feels like a constructed problem.

Isn't that basic hosting plan still a ready made SaaS platform?
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