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by SEJeff 4157 days ago
The Wordpress on this site is dead, why don't more people use static html generators these days? It doesn't get more web scale than static html via pelican or Jekyll or something :)

I'm quite happy to see this happening however and see that the batteries included, but removable mantra really is actually happening.

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we just moved our very own https://crate.io site from wordpress to cactus (python-based, https://github.com/koenbok/cactus). just opened our github repo: https://github.com/crate/crate-web it also includes a script to pull in existing wordpress blog posts.
We're working on moving to a static site generator :)

That said one emergency mod_rewrite rule later and we fixed the issue - which was that the HN link went to the link without the trailing slash which was hitting the database! :'(

Yes, we are also glad to be involved in making "batteries included but removeable" really happen :)
we at crate switched to https://github.com/koenbok/cactus and are really happy with it. we had a really bad experience with wordpress and are so glad we switched.