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ArinaS 4 days ago

> "I mean, a news site needs their journalists to login."

Why can't this site just upload HTML files to their web server?

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nottorp 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why can't this site have their CMS entirely separated from the public facing web site, for that matter? :)

> Eyeball optimization: Different titles, cutting summaries where it piques interest most, some other A/B testing...

Any non predatory practices you can add to the list?

	▲	bayindirh 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think you were trying to reply to me. I'm not a web developer, and I don't do anything similar on my pages, blog posts, whatever, so I don't know. The only non-predatory way to do this is to being honest/transparent and don't pulling tricks on people. However, I think, A/B testing can be used in a non-predatory way in UI testing, by measuring negative comment between two new versions, assuming that you genuinely don't know which version is better for the users.

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bayindirh 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Two operational requirements:

1. Journalists shall be able to write new articles and publish them ASAP, possibly from remote locations.

2. Eyeball optimization: Different titles, cutting summaries where it piques interest most, some other A/B testing... So you need a data structure which can be modified non-destructively and autonomously.

Plus many more things, possibly. I love static webpages as much as the next small-web person, but we have small-web, because the web is not "small" anymore.