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Re:Static site generators need less rigid content APIs by scrollaway on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:08AM (#18192782)
Give Ghost a try (https://ghost.org/). They have, I believe, potential to eventually add static site generation. There's an open issue about it, I really hope it happens.

I agree with you that sitegen from git is just too cumbersome when the articles aren't very bare/simple. Also when there are multiple users contributing, especially non-technical users.

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Re:Static site generators need less rigid content APIs by PuffinBlue on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:26AM (#18192891)
Ghost is expensive. Actually it's incredibly expensive when compared to the competition feature wise.

It's also a pain to self-host (especially compared to competition seeing as it's basically a requirement to go for a full VPS install) and is pretty opaque when anything goes wrong.

It's easy to use and slick, and I'm not OP, but it's not for me at least.

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