I have a question for people who use a full-scale CMS to run a single-page website:

[slothrop@chaos.social]

I have a question for people who use a full-scale CMS to run a single-page website:

Why??

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@slothrop How are the marketing folks supposed to constantly cram in new tracking pixels if it requires a code change to add one

[alieninvader@mastodontech.de]

@slothrop
Because we can and like it.

Okay my website is a wiki, but ask my home-server why it exists.
It is if no actual use, except for me and amusement.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@slothrop

Appreciating that it is a rhetorical question on which I will nevertheless voice an opinion:

I think that, at least in part, it comes down to some people knowing no better, because some of the basics, the fundamentals, are just not mentioned these days, whereas other, unnecessary, solutions are promoted/advertised/taught/sold.

"I need a website. WordPress! SquareSpace! react! node! Let's draw a canvas. Where's my database!"

Not just sticking a page of handwritten html on a webserver.

[fishermansenemy@infosec.exchange]

@slothrop they came in knowing they want a website and nothing else. Name registrar let them do the name purchase and hosting with a couple of clicks.