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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:21:47 JST mcc

   So this is the second time now I've seen someone make the (good!) observation that SSGs are a non-option to nontechies but here's the thing: It *should* be pretty easy to make a web editor that shows a directory listing, lets you drag in PNGs and edit Markdown files in a little box, and then feeds the directory directly into an SSG, and maybe optionally SCPs them to another server after that fact. Someone coulda made this 10 years ago. Just nobody did
   https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113307815934062221
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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:21:47 JST Eaton

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     @mcc @jalefkowit There are actually a few of them floating around — https://github.com/sveltia/sveltia-cms and https://decapcms.org stand out, but there are still rough edges. One of the virtues™ of WP was/is a very tight focus and unwillingness to add many useful-but-complicating features to the core project.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:27:02 JST Eaton

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     I think one of the bits that's often overlooked is how important CPanel's early inclusion of WordPress was, at a time when almost every cheap shared hosting account was “Here, have a CPanel login”

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:28:09 JST mcc

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     • Eaton

     @eaton @jalefkowit You're not wrong although it's funny because as a Wordpress user I am completely infuriated by this "GUI editor" which got forced on me with the last security update and which seems to have retroactively broken some number of my pages

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:28:09 JST Eaton

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     • Karen McGrane

     @mcc @jalefkowit DO NOT GET ME STARTED I am literally going to be doing a keynote talk with @karenmcgrane about the problems that component/block page building leaves on users' doorsteps, which is not quite related but GRRRAR etc http://eaton.fyi/talks/buried-in-blocks/

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:32:05 JST Eaton

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     • Karen McGrane

     @mcc @jalefkowit @karenmcgrane lol

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 11:32:06 JST mcc

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     • Karen McGrane

     @eaton @jalefkowit @karenmcgrane I'd say I won't get you started but I think maybe I got you started