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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by RobGav on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:20PM (#16672860)
This is why I use Publii https://getpublii.com

It's open source, free static CMS with GUI and free themes.

You can easily sync your website with Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP.

Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by ryanar on Sunday March 25, 2018 @11:02PM (#16676296)
Set up publii for a non-technical client, it looked like everything the client needed, but a few stumbling blocks

1) Themes are too limited, there are <10 and the path to customization is not simple. This is a chicken and egg problem, if publii grows, more themes come into the marketplace, but only having a few themes limits growth.

2) Even though it has a pretty good GUI, it is still confusing for non-technical people, and I struggled a lot with it too, mostly because there aren't tooltips next to fields to explain them (e.g. what is the difference between a "title" and a "label" for a link?)

I'll have to unfortunately move to something else for my client, and revisit publii at a later time.

Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by RobGav on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:32AM (#16676835)
Great feedback, I will send it to the authors. Publii is is still in beta so your comments will be helpful.

PS: In fact, there are 10 themes at this moment but show me the same quality, free themes that come with other static generators.

Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by navjack27 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:40PM (#16673309)
2nding this. And if netlify stops being good, well, Publii has everything saved so I can just upload it someplace else. Having a gui on a static site generator is a must.
Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by indigodaddy on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:46PM (#16674808)
Is there a facility that Publii supports, to easily sync locally, before an edit/push (eg if you are using different client systems a lot), either with Google Drive or Git (preferably) ?

I never saw this feature listed when looking at Publii, which kept me from trying it.

Note, please don't say just sync down from the server before doing anything locally; I don't want that to be the point of record. I'd rather that be Git.

Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by remir on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:15PM (#16673533)
Wow! I gotta say, this looks fantastic. Thanks for the link!