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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by andrei_says_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:33PM (#16831561)
As someone who has worked on the integration of off the shelf CMS and as well as built in house ones, I question this statement.

There’s a lot of value in building tools that fit the domain and workflow perfectly well. It’s expensive in the short term but in the long term saves a lot of time and money.

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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by youpassbutter on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:29PM (#16832053)
Sure. But it doesn't take a "team" to build up a CMS. This is why media "tech teams" are viewed as a joke in the tech industry.
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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by mgkimsal on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:17PM (#16833548)
WTF?

It takes a 'team' to provide any sort of professional level of support for an organization of their size. If the one-person "CMS/tech wizard" decides to stop working, or die, or get sick, or take an extra 4 hours to be with their family, the entirety of the NYT operations should just say "oh well, we'll just wait around for a while until we find our next one person to be our tech saviour"?

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Re:Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom by andrei_says_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:54PM (#16834623)
It is not constructive for me to engage with this level of cinicism.
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