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by betterThanTexas 401 days ago
> "Astro is the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce" [0]

Ok, but opposed to what? What does a non-content oriented website look like? Is a website itself not simply content?

> Fred Schott explained that it was not intended for building something like Figma, or Photoshop, or Facebook, or Youtube

Perhaps their tagline should be "we aren't oriented around building single page websites unlike all those other frameworks". I never would have understood that Figma, Photoshop, and Youtube were not content-oriented websites otherwise. "Content" is mostly not a meaningful phrase outside of a context which gives it meaning (i.e. it is a floating signifier).

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Sure, content is anything a container contains :-) My point was though that when a dictionary definition gives an unsatisfactory reading of a sentence, then perhaps other, indirect methods should be employed to tease the meaning out.