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Re: Craft CMS 4 Released

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Post by shortformblog » Fri, May 06, 2022, 10:40 AM UTC

newusertoday wrote: post #40

shortformblog wrote: post #16

I have been using Craft to run my newsletter, Tedium ( https://tedium.co ), since the start of 2019. I moved from Ghost, which at the time was not really designed for newsletters at all. I find Craft an amazing tool when I want to add new things—a big difference from Ghost, where everything is just kind of set for you and you have to rely on external integrations to expand functionality. I custom-code my emails and i…

what are you using for sending emails? any recommendations if you have evaluated multiple platforms for email?

I keep it minimal. I use Email Octopus, essentially as a front end to Amazon SES. I’ve used them since 2016 when it was literally two guys running the service.

For my needs I want something I can literally paste completed template code into that will not get in my way and will have decent deliverability. Email Octopus does a decent job on that front.

I will say that I use hosted forms, though I had a bad support experience with my provider there, MailMunch, so I’m thinking of switching to someone else.

Re: Craft CMS 4 Released

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Post by wink » Fri, May 06, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #9

Raise your hands if you were an early user of ExpressionEngine or Textpattern — CMSs that weren't skewed into CRMs, Shops or PWAs. Good times, but then WP ate them all.

Textpattern was awesome and I loved the look of the admin interface and the default theme back in... probably 2003? (Wikipedia seems to agree) but I didn't get along well with Textile and so I went with serendipity[1] and also contributed a bit. (Although my timeline could be a little off here, but I did start that blog in late 2004.)

[1]: https://s9y.org

Re: Craft CMS 4 Released

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Post by klsmith » Sat, May 07, 2022, 3:05 AM UTC

dbingham wrote: post #20

I was working at EllisLab on ExpressionEngine when Craft was first released. I don't know what things were like over at P&T, but it was interesting to witness from inside EllisLab. I would say Craft v ExpressionEngine is a case study in what happens when you don't pay your techdebt. Even if you have a lot of good ideas, if you don't stay on top of your techdebt, someone can always come, start fresh, cherry pick and b…

Also a case study in squandering the value of an engaged community.