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sundevon I am dropping WordPress support

Peace.

sundevon Why I didn't use Wordpress for my blog

Wrong problem, right solution. Right problem, wrong solution.

It's not a matter of "not" using WordPress for your "blog", rather its about using the right tool for the right job.

One could get the best of both worlds with WordPress as a CMS, and a SSG (Hugo, in your case), to generate pages, connecting to the WordPress JSON API, etc.

Thus, you're getting the "best" of both worlds. You have the speed and "simplicity" of a SSG, along with the "powerful" features of a CMS, two features that come to mind are; - Roles and Permissions - Scheduled Posts

If it's just "you're" blog, then "yes", WordPress may seem like overkill, however, its not worth it to put a negative statement out there, such as the title of your post.

P.S., https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/capital_...

sundevon Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers

Agreed, that part was lengthy as well, seemed to be way too many steps, but with the amount of users they've acquired that process doesn't seem to be an issue.

sundevon Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers

Its the little things :)

sundevon Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers

I'd love to know also, Algolia pricing seems extremely expensive, but I'd also imagine at 200M users they have sufficient funds to pay for it.