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spankaleetoday at 5:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's a shame they don't seem to try to address the divide between CMS's and static sites.

Most WordPress sites could just be static, but WordPress has a nice editor interface, so they're not - unless you use a SSG plugin. Building that into the core workflow (which I believe Astro supports) and giving users a nice hosted editor that produces a static site would be welcome innovation.


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pwythontoday at 5:55 PM

I've been migrating a few Wordpress sites from Wordpress to Astro + Strapi recently, working in 'hybrid mode' so the entire site is static except for post previews in Strapi (only that one route is SSR).

Editing content in Strapi, once customized with CKEditor and such, is Wordpressy enough for the human Editors familiar with WP.

So far I'm loving the stack.

MattieTKtoday at 5:04 PM

EmDash with some aggressive caching and SWR is effectively this, and we're getting closer to that every day. When the cost of maintaining the data part of the CMS is effectively free, you're basically working with a static site anyway.

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RobotToastertoday at 5:08 PM

The issue with static sites is they can't do comments.

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