Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team

Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by fishgoesblub on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#45866532)

I was excited up until they showed what the new theme looks like. mkdocs-Material was nice in that it didn't have overly rounded corners and over travesties, a shame that custom CSS will be needed to undo the "modernisation". Overall this seems very interesting, especially the performance improvements, just a letdown visually.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by squidfunk on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:45PM (#45867411)

Creator of Zensical here! As always, it's a matter of taste. We felt the original look was a little date. You can use the classic Material for MkDocs look with Zensical by adding a single line of configuration[1]. This works because the HTML is exactly the same right now. Most users favor the new look over the old one.

[1]: https://zensical.org/docs/setup/basics/#theme-variant

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by wpm on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:04PM (#45867590)

> Most users favor the new look over the old one.

How do you know?

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by squidfunk on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:10PM (#45867648)

From the feedback we got after launching. More accurately: most users that we conversed with since launch are very happy about the new look. Regardless, for compatibility reasons, the old look is available as well.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by whycome on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:55PM (#45868599)

Early adopters are a very distinct set of users. Probably not great to extrapolate from it.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by adastra22 on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:58AM (#45872881)

If you are expecting your market share to grow, then new users will outnumber existing users and it might be wise to extrapolate.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by jug on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:33AM (#45873799)

I do think it's looking fine, and above all a cross between Android (Material 3 Expressive), Windows 11 'Fluent UX', and iOS which I think will make many feel right at home. This wasn't really the case with the "old" Material style.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by quietbritishjim on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:40PM (#45869937)

Someone builds a complete documentation system from scratch and you call it a "travesty" because it has rounded corners? Visual design is important but this is very misplaced priorities.

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Re:Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Ma... by j1elo on Sunday November 09, 2025 @07:32PM (#45870805)

In todays News, someone built a whole Hotel with freely available design plans, and a user finds a travesty in the font style of the Cold/Hot sink taps being too round.

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