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by encryptluks2 1558 days ago
This site does a really bad job at explaining why I should use this product. It looks like they are trying to hard.
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haha, I liked the section "Excited to get started? Woohoo! In case you’re wondering, Bridgetown is a progressive site generator...." Like, who is so excited to get started that they yell woo hoo, but are still wondering what Bridgetown even is, at the most vague level?

"Excited to start taking Snarflorvex? Yabba dabba doo, we are too!!1! In case you're wondering, Snarflorvex is a topical hernia medication...."

It kinda got me excited but I would’ve love to see a quick tour screencast or something.
The answer: "Bridgetown is optimized for web developer happiness." :D

Like the goal of Hugo: "With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again." (It didn't, I couldn't get past the fact that the docs were hard to understand.)

I think tools need to focus on clear description of feature sets and leave the decision on what emotions to have to users.

But, scrolling down, I saw it said it was a static site generator. I'm still sticking to my own for now.

I doomscrolled through the entire user praise section to find three lines of commandline or code usage. Nothing of the sort.
No specific reason to prefer this over anything else, just vague endorsements from randoms on Twitter.