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Re:How to Survive Gentrification of the Drupal Community by daxfohl on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:03PM (#11247107)
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. Do you have any additional thoughts on when a CMS is appropriate versus static sites or from-scratch sites?
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Re:How to Survive Gentrification of the Drupal Community by jordanlev on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:22PM (#11247255)
It's an easy distinction: if non-programmers are managing the content of the site, don't use a static site or a static site generator.

Asking people whose job isn't "building websites" to edit text files, run some sort of compiler on the command line, connect to a server via FTP, or deal with version control is a total failure mode.

But if a developer (or an especially adventurous designer) is going to be editing the content of the site as time goes on, then static files or a static site generator can be a great option.

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