• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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            20 hours ago

            So all you need is a static site, I’d go for a free netlify or neocities account with hugo or something similar in that case. You don’t even need cloudflare or an admin panel on your own site.

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              13 hours ago

              What are you talking about?

              I’m not even using hosted wordpress. I run my own server. I mean open source self hosting alternatives. Static sites are like somewhat opposite to what I do. Feed is the definiton of “not static”. And with running my own server I need cloudflare to cache stuff so traffic won’t overload it.

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                7 hours ago

                A feed can just be a static file that’s updated with every change. The definition of not static is if you need to do processing on the backend, which you don’t.

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                  5 hours ago

                  How exactly do you think that static file gets ‘updated with every change’ automatically? You need a backend process or script to watch for changes, format the data, and rewrite the file to disk. That is backend processing.
                  I have the feeling you are confusing wordpress with “wordpress.com”. Because the alternatives you mentioned are alternatives to that.

                  // edit: correction because I think there is a misundestanding here.

                  I take the L and admit that what you say is possible. But for me it would not make sense. Yes, static generation is an alternative. But my current setup is a WordPress/wp-cli publishing pipeline with scheduling, media handling, categories, archives, admin UI, and automation. Replacing that with Hugo or similar would be a migration/rebuild project, not just ‘remove the backend.’