[Helen]

I was thinking about this lately, if you have a basic site that doesn’t have many features and you can host static pages free on GitHub or Cloudflare now so is there any solution where you can have a user login and play around with an easy to use editor, and then click publish and it will be hosted on the cloud for free

esp. something that is user-friendly for people not very tech savvy?

[Billy]

interesting thread from Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13681022

Q: Here’s what I would love: A wysiwyg editor much like WordPress outputting static HTML (maybe even directly to S3 buckets). Does this exist?

A. You just described Movable Type (https://movabletype.org/), which was WordPress before WordPress was WordPress.

The irony here is that the reason WordPress eclipsed Movable Type was that people got tired of having to go through the edit-output static files-publish cycle to modify their content. They wanted to make their changes in an editor and have them appear immediately on the live site, without waiting for a new set of static files to grind out. WP, which generates all pages dynamically, met that demand nicely.

Then of course people eventually discovered the downside of generating every page dynamically, namely that it’s much more resource intensive, and started to clamor for something more efficient. So the current wave of static site generators were born, doing the exact same thing MT got killed in the marketplace for doing.

Sigh.

[Brenda]

Static sites are cool but your average user can’t manage it.

[Rachel]

https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

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[Dylan]

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