Comment by azangru

> I’m genuinely shocked at the number of sites on the Net that use Wordpress, dynamically assembling markup with PHP for every page view,

What puzzles me about static sites (and I do build them) is how everything gets to be regenerated, even though you update only one file.

Now, imagine that your writing patten is small notes, like on twitter, mastodon, or bluesky. Over time, with this pattern, you will end up with thousands of notes. Is each one deserving of a page? Ideally, yes; because they should be linkable. Does it make sense to regenerate thousands of pages every time you add a note? Dunno.

Then, consider all the aggregation pages. For example, a paginated list of all my notes. Or a paginated list of notes distributed by different categories / tags. How many more pages does this create?

And the static assets that all get to be copied from source to output directory at every build.

And of course, comments. Static sites don't have comments.

I don't know. I think someone who invested into building their own site engines, like Jeremy Keith (https://adactio.com/) have it the best.