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points by prepend 1 day ago | 0 comments

> There's no shortage of alternatives. Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Ghost, Craft, Statamic

That I like about wordpress is that it is free and has no subscription costs. I run it on my cheap host and pay $0/month (patching myself, etc etc).

I don’t think stuff like Wix and SquareSpace are valid competitors as I don’t want to pay a monthly fee.

[–] robtherobber 1 day ago

That was a weird list, save for one or two suggestions. Should someone suggest a list of alternatives in this context, they would very likely go with Drupal, Joomla, October CMS etc. WP is a PHP-based free, self-hosted and open source CMS, there is absolutely no reason to suggest a closed SaaS version as an alternative. A Java-based self-hosted open source alternative? Maybe. A .NET one? I guess so.