Pages CMS
Dev tools
content management system
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How HN took it
30 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score +0.36.
Execution: 11 for, 2 againstIdea: 10 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy to deploy and a welcome alternative to Decap CMS.
From 3 comments
I was just thinking this morning how I wanted something like Decap CMS but a bit simpler. Got this running on Cloudflare in ten mins and it seems great so far. Thanks!
yusefnapora on HNI've setup Decap CMS before, back when it was still called Netlify CMS. I loved the core idea of keeping all your files in Git and tracking them normally but like you said, it…
_fat_santa on HNThis is really cool! I was sad when Forestry went down and this looks better than TinaCMS. I'm trying to set it up with my Eleventy blog (paavandesign.com/blog) and struggling to…
p44v9n on HN
Good user experience for editing content.
From 1 comment
Nice to see a new entry in the git based CMS realm, I really appreciate that you seem to understand the importance of a good user experience for editing content! Am I gathering…
__jonas on HN
Objections
Requires full GitHub repo access via OAuth.
From 1 comment
Why do I have to give access to all my public and private repos instead of selecting the ones I want to give it access to?
FanaHOVA on HN
Onboarding and configuration are hard without a wizard.
From 2 comments
Tried it out [1], and with a bit of work got it to function. Media, posts, all seem to upload and be viewable. With the lead-in, kind of thought it was going to be…
araes on HNI agree with a lot of your points. > Does an OK job at inferring content types from folder structure+ssg type and fields from frontmatter, writes config as flat files to git. You…
hunvreus on HN
Only supports GitHub, not generic git servers.
From 1 comment
This looks cool but I moved all my repos to a self-hosted forge when GitHub openly and notoriously refused to stop collaborating with ICE (that runs concentration camps in…
sneak on HN
Requests
Support for GitLab, Bitbucket, or generic git.
From 2 comments
This looks cool but I moved all my repos to a self-hosted forge when GitHub openly and notoriously refused to stop collaborating with ICE (that runs concentration camps in…
sneak on HNI am looking into GitLab and Bitbucket, but I don't plan on supporting generic Git, unless I can find a way to slap an API in front of it. I'll add that to the backlog.
hunvreus on HN
Collaborative editing and email invites for non-developers.
From 1 comment
Support for S3 and R2 media storage.
From 1 comment
I'm working on support for things like S3 and R2.
hunvreus on HN
Questions
Whether it works with mdx files and collections.
From 1 comment
This is super cool! Tried to set it up for our open source Changelog though and getting some errors, it doesn't seem to work with .mdx files https://github.com/juneHQ/changelog…
0xferruccio on HN
Whether media can be colocated with posts.
From 1 comment
Is there a way to configure this with media colocated with posts (i.e., not in a /media folder but in/a/post/subfolder/image.png)?
flkiwi on HN
Alternatives named
Decap CMS
From 2 comments
Good to see further development in this space. Would be interesting to see how it compares to Decap CMS https://decapcms.org/ and Static CMS https://www.staticcms.org/ Me…
edtechdev on HNNice to see a new entry in the git based CMS realm, I really appreciate that you seem to understand the importance of a good user experience for editing content! Am I gathering…
__jonas on HN
Keystatic
From 2 comments
Looks very nice. Any comparisons against other github based CMS? Personally I've been using Keystatic.
aleksiy123 on HNwhy this over keystatic or statamic or (insert upcoming decap replacement)?
posterguy on HN
Forestry
From 1 comment
I've been developing premium themes for Hugo & Jekyll for many years at https://www.zerostatic.io so I have tried quite a few Git based CMS. My favourite was Forestry (RIP) which…
ninefoxgambit on HN
TinaCMS
From 1 comment
This is really cool! I was sad when Forestry went down and this looks better than TinaCMS. I'm trying to set it up with my Eleventy blog (paavandesign.com/blog) and struggling to…
p44v9n on HN
Statamic
From 1 comment
why this over keystatic or statamic or (insert upcoming decap replacement)?
posterguy on HN