Re:Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit
by Keats on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:11PM
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> I've found myself struggling to decide on what do I want to see in the final app and what I do not; what features might be needed by other users and what features might be an overkill.
It's tricky. You can't accept all the features otherwise you just have a mess. At the same time you need to also add/supports features that a lot of people want but _you_ personally don't need if you want the tool to be used by more than 1 person. For example with SSG I don't use themes, I just write my own templates for every site. Despite that I still added it to Zola because most people want themes. Some people will not be happy when you say no to some features they want but hey, it's open-source they can always fork it.
It's tricky. You can't accept all the features otherwise you just have a mess. At the same time you need to also add/supports features that a lot of people want but _you_ personally don't need if you want the tool to be used by more than 1 person. For example with SSG I don't use themes, I just write my own templates for every site. Despite that I still added it to Zola because most people want themes. Some people will not be happy when you say no to some features they want but hey, it's open-source they can always fork it.