Phil Thane ✅Mar 7
Until I retired I ran my own website on Wordpress. When I retired I closed that but got involved with a local boat club and helped set up their site on WP. Left that a few years ago and someone else runs it now. Consequently although I've noticed some disagreements about WordPress on here I haven't really been paying attention. What's the situation? I'm thinking of creating a new blog, is WP still a decent option? What's the TL:DR version of events? #wordpress #blogging
Show threadSimon Brooke

@pthane TLDR is that one of the original authors of #Wordpress, who himself owns one of the big Wordpress hosting sites, tried to strong arm other wordpress hosting sites into paying him money. The noise has died down, so I imagine he failed.

As a software snob I consider Wordpress poorly engineered and ludicrously over-complex for running a blog; from a technical point of view there are hundreds of better solutions. But it is well known and user friendly.

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Show threadPhil Thane ✅Mar 8
@simon_brooke I'm currently tinkering with a very basic html only site. Something I've done occasionally over the last 30 years without ever getting past beginner level.
Show threadSimon BrookeMar 8

@pthane I use #Cryogen for all my essentially static sites. It's simple and (fairly) elegant and suits me, but you need to be tolerant of a command line, and there are, as I say, literally hundreds of alternatives.

http://cryogenweb.org/

Cryogen: Simple static sites

Cryogen is a simple static site generator built with Clojure and designed by Carmen La. It's shipped on Leiningen so setup is simple and fuss free.

Show threadNils Pickert 🚂Mar 9
@pthane @simon_brooke switched from WordPress to static since some time. I use Hugo to generate the HTML from markdown, works well, but if you want to adapt something in the templates, it has a learning curve.