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“You should never build a CMS”

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140 points handfuloflight | 1 comments | 14 Dec 25 05:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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inesranzo ◴[14 Dec 25 07:35 UTC] No.46261415[source]▶
Why do you need to use Git as a CMS?

That seems backwards and hellish when you want to grow your content and marketing team as they have no clue on how to use this arcane tool.

Now the engineers would need to be bothered by the marketing department time and time again to add blog posts, wasting engineering time.

This is the reason why CMS's like Sanity, Wordpress, Directus exist.

using Git as a CMS doesn't make sense at scale.

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PunchyHamster ◴[14 Dec 25 08:03 UTC] No.46261526[source]▶
Git can make sense, but you still need to wrap it for non-technical people. No matter how easy markup is, some people still will refuse to learn it and ask for WYSIWYG tools
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sublinear ◴[14 Dec 25 09:23 UTC] No.46261859[source]▶
I'm gonna be honest here. I don't know what a non-technical person is anymore. The only people I can truly label that way are a subset of the people now near or at retirement age.

It's almost 2026. There are more people who know how to code than ever before. This stuff is taught in every school now. Everyone has access to AI to help them if they get stuck. If someone under 50 is unwilling to work I am unwilling to employ.

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1. collingreen ◴[14 Dec 25 18:14 UTC] No.46265329[source]▶
I've been shocked when talking to younger people who have -never used a computer that wasn't their phone-. People genuinely interested in cs degrees that needed to be taught how to use the computer first. These are not "dumb" or "unwilling" folks they just have grown up in a way I don't recognize and didn't expect. I assume it's the equivalent of how I've gone to a library to do research at most a half dozen times in my life despite doing lots and lots of reading, learning, and writing - my world just does not look like "do that at the library" anymore even though probably folks just 10 years older were almost exclusively there.

I think you're painting with too broad of a brush if your goal is an accurate model of the world here.