end of an era of writing in a web-browser?

After all the Wordpress meltdowns the last year, I moved away completely from thinking of Wordpress as my go-to solution. Years of frontend development, complex plugin development, obscure but actually-worked usage, just left it all. I will say I miss logging in, going to “Posts” and creating a new entry in the familiar interface - since Wordpress 1.0. I ended up liking Gutenberg, even with its issues. So where did I end up, well Astro for this site; other solutions elsewhere.

Definately different, better in alot of ways for the tech-stack needs keeping things lean without having a sql database and all the extra-stuff that is wordpress. Not so great if you don’t want the tax of “developing” e.g. running a dev server, managing code, setting up ci/cd, writing in a code editor, security, and debugging. If you just want to write and publish, easy-does-it is things like wordpress. (Personally I like all the developer stuff, but sometimes just want to quickly write and push Go)

Once you have everything setup with your flavor of markdown content creation, the experience can be and is awesome, but I’m really just riffing on missing an ‘easy’ button.

Now where does that leave us and whats my point?

Back to joomla / drupal? Not sure. Back in the day I really enjoyed both for their features and flexibility, then I just ended up with wordpress. I think its time (for myself) to go back to a web-browser writing experience with either of those because I don’t want to pay for a CMS, and the workflow of Astro can have some friction involved when just looking for a write → publish flow.

There are others out there that might meet my requirements, but I think I’ll just have to get over it. Such is life.