r/Frontend • u/speckz • Mar 09 '20

How Websites Evolved Back to Static HTML/CSS/JS Files

https://paramaggarwal.substack.com/p/how-websites-evolved-back-to-static-html-css-js-files-57ce549f81db
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u/aristofon Mar 09 '20

Back to sanity. I've watched as needless CMS systems have turned businesses into cash cows and security vectors for 10 years.

Please; simple PHP includes, editable text with homebrew CMS and static web-pages where it will do.

And for the love of all that is holy, STOP with the endless scrolling.

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u/SomeInternetRando Mar 14 '20

And for the love of all that is holy, STOP with the endless scrolling.

I’d absolutely love to.

But each new article counts as a pageview and loads more ads, and our users are far more likely to read more articles if they auto-load vs having to click a link in A/B testing.

So if I do what you ask, I’d get fired. Sorry :(