Call for the new website

[Hans5958]

Have fresh ideas on the new website? You can post your ideas, concepts, proposal, etc here, and we can have a discussion.

The repositories as scope of the website is as follows.

1. https://github.com/ScratchAddons/website-v2
2. https://github.com/ScratchAddons/website-v2-script
3. https://github.com/ScratchAddons/website-i18n

This is made as few people have interests on creating the new website, and I welcome these as the main maintainer of the current website. This discussion is made here so that it is not restrained to the website-v2 repository.

Note that maintenance by me is not guranteed, and it depends on the implementation. The worst case scenario is that you will have a level of maintenance responsibility of the new site.

[Hans5958]

Few considerations of mine

• Consider all (open) issues and (pending) PRs on the repository.
• Keep it as a static site as much as possible. JS frameworks are a good thing, but use it wisely; as needed (see Rewrite the addons page to be more dynamic website-v2#271)
  • I don't like having it as an (React/Vue/Svelte/etc) app, and no way we are doing SSR with such budgets.
• Consider whether separating the repository into multiple repositories, for docs, blog, etc. i18n should be kept separate for size reasons, and the website should be loadable when there is only English
• Please see context on the community Discord server, located on https://discord.com/channels/806602307750985799/806602307750985803/1203742096436101250

[Hans5958]

For the note, GrahamSH-LLK considers using Docusaurus, at least for the docs, as mentioned on ScratchAddons/website-v2#283.

[BlinzThePokemon]

The only framework that I think would not cause complications in the future is docusauras so I also support it

[Hans5958]

As another note (again), my personal opinion goes towards Astro, as an static site generator that offers good support of JS frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, etc). I have used it for a while, so I might be biased, but believe it's pretty good.

[Secret-chest]

-1 for Astro, let's keep JS for web apps, not for replacing semantic HTML structure.

[Hans5958]

What do you mean? No one says that it replaces "semantic HTML structure." Like, do you even know what you are talking about?

[Secret-chest]

JavaScript was made for web interactivity, not content management.

[Hans5958]

...and who says that it is made for content management?