alt Hacker NewsIs there a compelling reason to even use a CMS at all anymore? I feel like the majority moved on well over a decade ago.
Is it just the last remaining pockets of "that kind" of web dev?
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> Is it just the last remaining pockets of "that kind" of web dev?
You mean the kind of development that powers nearly the entire web?
Unless we're talking about figma-like web apps, Content is usually a different department than development.
I know it's becoming more and more outdated nowadays, but if a magazine or a news website is still written by humans rather than AI they need a way to provide formatted text and media, and preview the output.
On the other hand I should add that i've also seen an upward growth in CMSes like WordPress being used exclusively as Online Editors, with content ultimately being exported trough REST to completely different backends and frontends, like a Firebase/NextJS infra.
40% of web sites run WordPress. And there's tons of other CMSes out there as well, so I don't think the majority have moved on.
Moved on from a cms? No, they’re more used than ever before.
websites are still made out of content, I think?
Yes, usually when you have a team and need governance over users / content / state. i.e. a publishing workflow that might have specific regulatory review requirements etc.
We're finding that this is becoming even more critical when users are using agents and the scale of changes / publishing increases. Pair that with things like AI regulations that require records of human providence etc, and a CMS becomes even more important.