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> How do you scale your site or add * number of posts or headers and footers that do things like show the latest post?

It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a script to build the site

The problem with many static site generators is that they grow beyond their initial mission and get bloated in an effort to please a wider audience, so previous adopters get tired of the imposed complexity and problematic dependencies they didn't need or ask for and start looking for simpler solutions that meet their needs.

  I want to migrate, but my blog currently has this cool thing and I need it.

And since the audience probably can't settle, and keep trying different setups, all SSGs grow in complexity and more or less reach feature parity among each other.

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> It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a script to build the site

That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me?

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> That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me?

Right? They didn't abandon the concept, they just picked a solution that better fits their needs. Less headache, less abstraction, and less surprises overall.