I'm working on the site for my new podcast, revolution.social and i was about to go install ghost. But then i was wondering, does using a CMS for site like that even make sense? I mean are we to the point where I should just have an LLM agent add the functionality I want to the react site as it is?
Are CMS's dead? What would be the advantage of using one any more?
I've been thinking of building something that uses nostr long-form content as as cms. A static site builder that rebuilds every time you post a new note.
I like that idea
What if the LLM added the functionaliy the visitor wants it to have right now? Depending on region, browser, cookies, …
I’m a fan of the hybrid approach - a static site generator like Hugo with a fully custom ui. you get the best parts of the static site generator like content conventions/tagging/compilation, but the uiux is custom.
Nothing dies in digital realm 😉 we just slowly adopt new tools to make our lives easier.
I just did this with my blog recently actually, it’s got its own backend server for serving content any everything.
The LLM built all the code within maybe 45 minutes, it took longer to configure ec2 and dns/nginx
You can have the agent configure the server also.
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I think a CMS makes sense in some use cases, eg formal organisations, particularly those large enough to have some kind of in-house IT team. Does it make sense for a solo project, run by someone with the skills to build an efficient site from scratch to meet their needs (ie you)? It probably doesn't. Although there *might* still be advantages in sharing the maintenance headaches that emerge over time?
One cool thing about Ghost in particular is that if you use version 6.0 (once it's out), you can use the AP integration to make everything you publish natively available in the fediverse. I'd love to see this syndication engine tweaked so plugins can be added to publish over Nostr, ATProto, and any other protocol someone wants to write a plugin for.
