I'm loving Jekyll. I've been building a blog with it and it's been a joy so far. I also have a 'main site' (just links to my social media and a little 'about me'), which I made using old-fashioned hand-written HTML and CSS. When I started on that I was a total noob, and now I have to update and maintain it, I understand the error of my ways. I'll probably switch to Jekyll for that too. At the moment I'm hosting everything on Netlify.
Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
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#12Using Grav for product documentation section. Was looking for something to generate html files initially.
But Grav had a docs theme like rtd. So far it's running without a hitch. I've moved it a few times because its flat file, would recommend it.
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#13I use https://blot.im because it has no publishing interface and because I built the platform myself.
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#14I'm on Jekyll. I started out as a WordPress developer, so once I moved to more advanced programming I kept using WordPress, but it was so annoying to have to keep up with the updates that I decided to try Jekyll because of their static site nature. Static sites are awesome because they're wicked fast, and they work in perpetuity. I'm a huge fan. If you can handle a little coding I think it's much preferable to a CMS.
I too used to be a WordPress developer and then discovered Jekyll in the spring of 2015. I've been proselytizing static site generators ever since.
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#15I've been using Nanoblogger, a Bash-based static website generator, for about ten years. It hasn't been updated in the last four, and indeed is still hosted on SourceForge. I could switch to something newer and better, but why bother?
> I could switch to something newer and better, but why bother?
Since it's not maintained, personally I'd be tempted to try transitioning to something that is (with minimal change to content and structure/configuration required) to save dealing with it when you're just trying to publish new content and suddenly run up against some bug.
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#16Processwire ( http://processwire.com ) is the darkhorse in the CMS race. Like Wordpress, it is also PHP/MySQL based. However, the ease of use, documentation, and extensibility has really won me over. I think the difference between Processwire and Wordpress has been in the developer experience. The former (Processwire) is better organized, direct, and addresses the most common things you would want to do in the CMS. W…
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#17Phenomic (https://phenomic.io/). It's a static-site-generator built on React. Formerly, I used a homegrown solution, also built on React.
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#18A single file named `index.php` that loads a bunch of text files and spits out what looks vaguely like a blog.
It's a total mess. Business logic and HTML snippets scattered everywhere. Layers of caching to make the whole thing load in less than 0.03 seconds on cheap shared hosting. I'm sure I do a much better job for paying clients, but somehow never get around to fixing the decade-old garbage that runs my own site.
At least it doesn't have any SQL injection vulnerabilities :p
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#19A hackjob of an ASP.NET MVC app that loads html pages from Azure blob storage, hosted on the cheapest tier of Azure WebApps that lets you use a real domain name.
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#20Html and php include