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@Condor I see how "devs" could see this as easy money, but how did it even turn this way? it's literally made to attract those people to save money, time, prevent from learning all complications that come with a custom website etc. (even hosting, domain, ssl everything is one button) but they still decide to make somebody else do it, it blows my mind
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I can't say if it's good for anything @Nachfolger seems to like it, so maybe he can give more insight into it. But my general experience with anything generated, is it's highly unmaintainable, because there is going to be things you simply can't implement with the drag&drop or even their custom components, since those end up just in even more chaos, with thousands of inline styles or thousands of stylesheets for each component+subpage.
@Nachfolger
I added grapesjs as the more common tool that people want one to use to create their website and my only guess to why was that they can later then just continue to maintain it themselves, though with grape it seems like it only pops out the static template for you, making you either hire somebody or buy a service for the actual hosting, domain etc.
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@Nachfolger That's why I had added squarespace as a popular demand builder too, to as far as I could see and experience, they have everything in two or three clicks for the tech illiterate, so why would you make somebody do that for you too, the whole builder and WYSIWYG market is made to eliminate that.
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All those website builders, tools and frameworks were designed to make tech illiterate people be able to create websites, so how fucking dense are all those people that publish jobs to create a website with a literal click & drag tool or website builder?!
Example: http://grapesjs.com/ is very popular amongst those searching - though this seems would have to be published manually after creating it, so I would understand help with publishing, but theres websites also mentioned like squarespace, which has seriously no excuses besides being that lazy and forcing somebody to chew it for you
I see maintainability of the website later on of course as a handy argument for them to use those kinda tools and websites, but what do you need somebody to do it for you from the start, if you plan on later then manage it the same way?
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