[lousy_sysadmin]

This is what I think

WordPress

1) Beginner friendly

- One doesn't need to be a coder or mess with cmd to use it.

- Abundance of tutorial(text/audio/video)

- You can host it anywhere, even for free. FTP? I know that from work.

- Hosting provider even install it for you

- Expert support is all over the web

- Drupal and Joomla can't beat WordPress new user adoption, why? They're made to be customized(more developer-centric). Too much option is apparently not good for new user.

2) Features

- Need something? there's plugin for that

- People/visitors loves nice design/layout, WordPress have thousands of themes

- Secure. Attacked by some random ddos/script kiddies? Hosting provider will take care of it. Malicious code? same case.

Static site generator.

1) Beginner friendly

- Yes, at least if you're familiar with cmd.

- Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many.

- Write new post, generate, upload...complicated!

- Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope!

- Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard

- Lets try it on my phone, nope!

2) Features

- I want to add Facebook comment, how? Read the manual, download that, configure...blabla. No thanks

- Lets add analytics code. Edit template and insert this javascript, save and regenerate...blabla. No thanks

Conclusion : it might be a piece of cake for you but not to most people. Remember "most user are idiot"?. If I want to have simple static blog with nice editor I would use Blogger. Dumping random text? I have pastebin for that. Static site generator sure is attractive but we are just not there yet.

I have a feeling that 'campaign' to promote static site generator to WordPress user is strikingly similar to Windows-to-Linux campaign. It just never going to happen for most user, at this rate.

[js4all]

I see you points, but many of them are not valid:

> - Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many.

Because you just need to serve static content, there are more options than for Wordpress, incl. Google and Github.

> - Write new post, generate, upload...complicated!

Not at all:

    1. Create a new post: rake new_post["title"]
    2. Edit using your favorite editor
    3. Sync: rake deploy

> - Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope!

There are tags for that, i,e, {% img /img/pic01.png %}

> - Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard

You can edit any post. They are in folders sorted by year and month.

> - Lets try it on my phone, nope!

Correct.

Conclusion: Blogging this way seems complicated, but is isn't if you are really doing it. Please try it for sake of a faster and safer Internet.