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This is what I think WordPress 1) Beginner friendly - One doesn't need to be a coder or mess with cmd to use it. - Abundance of tutorial(text/audio/video)

This is what I think WordPress 1) Beginner friendly - One doesn't need to be a coder or mess with cmd to use it. - Abundance of tutorial(text/audio/video) - You can host it anywhere, even for free. FTP? I know that from work. - Hosting provider even install it for you - Expert support is all over the web - Drupal and Joomla can't beat WordPress new user adoption, why? They're made to be customized(more developer-centric). Too much option is apparently not good for new user. 2) Features - Need something? there's plugin for that - People/visitors loves nice design/layout, WordPress have thousands of themes - Secure. Attacked by some random ddos/script kiddies? Hosting provider will take care of it. Malicious code? same case. Static site generator. 1) Beginner friendly - Yes, at least if you're familiar with cmd. - Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many. - Write new post, generate, upload...complicated! - Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope! - Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard - Lets try it on my phone, nope! 2) Features - I want to add Facebook comment, how? Read the manual, download that, configure...blabla. No thanks - Lets add analytics code. Edit template and insert this javascript, save and regenerate...blabla. No thanks Conclusion : it might be a piece of cake for you but not to most people. Remember "most user are idiot"?. If I want to have simple static blog with nice editor I would use Blogger. Dumping random text? I have pastebin for that. Static site generator sure is attractive but we are just not there yet. I have a feeling that 'campaign' to promote static site generator to WordPress user is strikingly similar to Windows-to-Linux campaign. It just never going to happen for most user, at this rate.

js4all 13y ago
I see you points, but many of them are not valid: > - Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many. Because you just need to serve static content, there are more options than for Wordpress, incl. Google and Github. > - Write new post, generate, upload...complicated! Not at all: 1. Create a new post: rake new_post["title"] 2. Edit using your favorite editor 3. Sync: rake deploy > - Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope! There are tags for that, i,e, {% img /img/pic01.png %} > - Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard You can edit any post. They are in folders sorted by year and month. > - Lets try it on my phone, nope! Correct. Conclusion: Blogging this way seems complicated, but is isn't if you are really doing it. Please try it for sake of a faster and safer Internet.

js4all 13y ago

I see you points, but many of them are not valid: > - Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many. Because you just need to serve static content, there are more options than for Wordpress, incl. Google and Github. > - Write new post, generate, upload...complicated! Not at all: 1. Create a new post: rake new_post["title"] 2. Edit using your favorite editor 3. Sync: rake deploy > - Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope! There are tags for that, i,e, {% img /img/pic01.png %} > - Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard You can edit any post. They are in folders sorted by year and month. > - Lets try it on my phone, nope! Correct. Conclusion: Blogging this way seems complicated, but is isn't if you are really doing it. Please try it for sake of a faster and safer Internet.