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Comment by f33d5173

14 days ago

CMS here not referring to content management system?

You're right about the CMS. But unlike the Western ecosystem centered around WordPress, South Korea's public and web ecosystem is pathologically dependent on isolated local bulletin board system (BBS)-centric CMS platforms like 'GnuBoard' or 'ZeroBoard/XE.' As a result, when the government mandates censorship modules, it creates vendor lock-in, as those modules are supplied exclusively in the form of plugins for these local CMS platforms

  • so we don't have many if any of those vBulletin instances on Japanese Web either... That's just normal.

    • Right. Each country has its own environment dependencies, but instead, global competitiveness weakens. But isn't the Japanese web rather more distinctive in terms of website styles? They have so many hardcore programmers over there

You're right. I need to explain that the bulletin board systems and forum systems are built primarily around a specific CMS. Sorry about that.