> College isn't just a place that teaches you how to do a job; it's also a safe, structured, and productive environment for people to continue growing up – and to fend off adulthood for a bit.
This is actually a problem.
> in developed countries, there is an era between ages 18 and 25 when we collectively agree to let people explore the world and figure out what role they want to have in it. He calls it "emerging adulthood". And college is an environment built for emerging adults – a place where kids can leave their family environment and finally have a chance to independently shape their futures.
This is a wholly inaccurate description of college.
it was my experience of college. many I know would agree, and few would agree with you. I'm sure there are some that didn't feel this way, but strange sweeping statement to make.
Doesn't matter if it's multi-cloud or not, the HTTP server Netlify are using still has HTTP/2 issues
Suggest you look at at few more Contentful sites in DevTools the Contentful site itself has no content in it's HTML and requests all content as JSON which is then rendered via JS components.
Preface: Netlify is a platform that enables static development, while Netlify CMS is an open source project created by Netlify.
In a broad sense there's nothing that can't work with the CMS - you can integrate a Mailchimp sign up form in your template and never have the CMS touch it. Beyond that, reach out in the spectrum community for help with a specific use case: https://spectrum.chat/netlify-cms
Asset storage integrations are supported, but it’s very early. That’s one area where we expect to strengthen after 1.0 drops in December.
That said, you don’t need a direct integration to work with a service - you could upload files to a service and enter the url into the cms as a stopgap.
Please don’t run around seeing conspiracies when a more likely explanation is that there are non-trivial numbers of people who hold opinions different from what you expect.
Shouldn't have said "systematic", didn't mean to insinuate a collaborative effort. Silently down voting is what I'm pointing out, as it tends to be non constructive, I don't think I'll ever get used to that.
That said, my comment was ultimately pointless and I regret making it, agreed.
Cost isn't the big issue, there are plenty of ways to do it for free. I'm curious why you think this is against GitHub's TOS? We're creating commits and pull requests via their API, which is exactly why the API exists, programmatic interaction with the service.
> Cost isn't the big issue, there are plenty of ways to do it for free.
Okay, but I was also thinking how easy it would be, for non-programmers. I.e., what would be the easiest way to host it without cost?
> I'm curious why you think this is against GitHub's TOS? We're creating commits and pull requests via their API, which is exactly why the API exists, programmatic interaction with the service.
Yes, but you would be committing data, not code.
Also, I suppose the data would not be not human-friendly to read, so that's another step away from typical github use.
It's meant to be implemented by a developer, but it doesn't take much skill, and can be hosted for free on a number of services. I was a champion of Netlify well before I became an employee, so I still shamelessly plug them as the way to host static.
Regarding what we're committing, it's definitely human friendly, mostly markdown, or else json/yaml/toml/etc, nothing crazy. It's a completely legitimate use, same kind of data that GitHub's own Pages product uses.
I wonder though, if a developer needs to find/provide hosting, then why not use a local db (or even a local git-repo) instead of github? With current data storage solutions, installing could be as simple as one line of code.
The CMS is specifically made to work with Git, because so many developers are already using it for the rest of their site development. That said, it's not impossible to write a non-git backend, but it's heavily bent that way at the moment.
Yep, we're managing Git content through their API, which is exactly the kind of thing the API exists for. There are working PR's for open for Bitbucket and GitLab backends too, those will be out soon.
This is actually a problem.
> in developed countries, there is an era between ages 18 and 25 when we collectively agree to let people explore the world and figure out what role they want to have in it. He calls it "emerging adulthood". And college is an environment built for emerging adults – a place where kids can leave their family environment and finally have a chance to independently shape their futures.
This is a wholly inaccurate description of college.