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Re:Building a Blog in Django by sneak on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:56PM (#37486033)
> Static sites are really only appropriate for sites that rarely ever change. A blog may or may not change frequently enough to warrant a backend.

Any modern SSG can build and deploy in under a minute, usually in single digit seconds. This isn't really an issue in practice at all.

Static sites work fine even if you are updating many times an hour. This is a far cry from "rarely ever change".

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Re:Building a Blog in Django by evantbyrne on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:21PM (#37486476)
You're conflating build times and deploy times. A low friction deployment might take a couple minutes end-to-end for something that "builds" in a few seconds once the CI is booted up. Sure, that's fine for hobbyist stuff that is always being edited by the web developer and nobody else. The point is a proper backend editing experience brings so much to the table. Once upon a time, my promotion was delayed because the team lead I answered to decided to use a SSG instead of a proper CMS, and non-technical stakeholders were not happy about the limitations.
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