On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen@redhat.com> wrote:


On 02/05/2018 06:32 AM, Jakub Ruzicka wrote:
P.S.: Do I get it right we migrated from simple universal Markdown files towards PHP powered WYSIWYG attrocity that is WordPress? What was the motivation behind this downgrade?

 I certainly see that you don't have a high opinion of this move. I rather wish we had seen your feedback earlier in this process, as we've been discussing it for some time.

I also wish to have known as I'd certainly put in my feedback, but I missed it :-/

On the one hand, you can, in fact, still author in simple universal markdown, so that, at least, has not become more difficult.

Oh? So I can still edit a local text file and preview/submit it using CLI?
  
The move to Wordpress is all about the things that it makes easier - if not for the author, in your case, for the consumer of the content. The ability to automatically promote this content to other social media outlets. The ability to schedule posts to go out at a particular time. The large ecosystem of plugins for doing all manner of things around the blog post. The ability to have a blog post in a draft, and give a team of people the ability to review it and see what it's actually going to look like when it's published.

After reading this, I'd reccommend Ghost. I believe it offers all the features mentioned (WP obviously wins on sheer number of plugins) while not being a bloated PHP system and providing beautiful Markdown editor/previewer. Late to the party, huh ;)

We also simply wanted to merge the two blog presences to remove confusion.

Yes, that's definitely a good idea.
 
I hope that we haven't lost you as an author with this move.

I have shown the previous system to several people as a state of the art merge of best of old and new technologies... I really liked it to a point where it was pleasant to write blog posts.

It boils down to ability to treat the blog text as a text file (like everything else) and being able to use my favourite set of text editing tools on it. 

I'll see if I can do that with the new setup and there might be some plugins to help, however I had very bad experience when I tried to make WordPress behave reasonably like that few years ago.


Cheers
Jakub