On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]>
> > Because why make the devops of a web server our problem (eg. dealing with
> > security, sudden traffic influxes, etc), when we can make it someone
> else's
> > problem (ie. Github's)?  We should focus on the software we're creating,
> > not on devops for websites.
>
> Because using yet another wiki makes the conversion of the existing
> content and the replacement of all the incoming links our problem.
>
> And that’s a problem at which we already failed once (in the transition
> From the old wiki to the current wiki which is still not finished).
>

Maybe the reason the new wiki failed was because it also uses the awful
MediaWiki syntax, while the rest of the world has moved on to a
Markdown-based syntax (like Github Wiki)?

> Because I think the problems with the existing site are fundamental, and
> it
> > would be very inefficient to solve them incrementally.
>
> Do I understand it correctly that with that you mean you consider the
> cost of fixing the current site incrementally to be higher than the cost
> of redoing what is needed to make everything work with a rewrite?
>

Yes, the current site is hideous, I am confident that it would be far more
work to fix it incrementally than to start again from scratch.

Ian.
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