u/scarletdawnredd

Hey everyone, Just wanted to get an idea of how people are making their sites. Would love to hear specifically from both non-primarily technical folks and nerds.

Until the last few years I was creating my site with static site generators (E.g. Bridgetown, 11ty, Jekyll, etc.)

I've been programming with PHP since forever, so for a bit I tinkered with a minimal PHP framework to build it, but then I realized I was basically bootstrapping a (less powerful) CMS.

I dropped that project and then just decided to rebuild my site using a flat file PHP-based CMS. It's a nice compromise between SSGs and other CMSs like WordPress.

How about you?

I love the indie web. I love the recent resurgence in interest.

This post comes with no expectations, I get it--you guys are unpaid.

But can't help but notice that a lot of recent posts here seem to be against the spirit of the sub: mainly NOT relating to personal, indie websites used for expression.

This sub runs the risk of becoming yet another subreddit for AI-related/clearly slop-coded project self-promotion void. I would hate for that to happen.

I lost /r/cms, /r/coolgithubprojects, and /r/Blogging, among others over the last 10 years. Would hate to lose this one too.

Thoughts? Not against self-promotion of sites and projects in the spirit of the indie web btw.