Make the exampleSite's content more generic

[bep]

Thanks for this great theme, much appreciated.

It would be even better if you could make the exampleSite not to be an ad for Gatsby. Gatsby is great, but isn't something that feels natural to promote on the Hugo theme site:

https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/hugo-theme-novela/

Some generic content would be better.

Thanks.

[DirtyF]

@bep agreed, it feels weird, any existing content I could use? I prefer not to replace with fake text.

[onedrawingperday]

any existing content I could use?

Hello @DirtyF please have a look at the content files of the hugoBasicExample.

Or if you prefer simply perform a search and replace so that:
Gatsby --becomes--> Hugo in the content files of the Novela exampleSite

Once you look into the above please let me know, so that I can update the theme demo on the Hugo website.

Thanks.

[digitalcraftsman]

Or if you prefer simply perform a search and replace so that:
Gatsby --becomes--> Hugo in the content files of the Novela exampleSite

That might be more confusing than beneficial. Some posts explain concepts that are specific to Gatsby and even contain JS / React code snippets, e.g. in
https://hugo-novela-forestry.netlify.com/post/2019-04-31-understanding-the-gatsby-lifecycle/

[onedrawingperday]

Hello again @DirtyF

Can you please look into this issue and let me know?

As mentioned above you can use content files from the hugoBasicExample repo.

[onedrawingperday]

Hello again @DirtyF

I understand that this issue may not be a priority for you.

However almost a month has passed since the original request was made about removing the Gatsby references from the theme's content files.

As of today the Novela theme's demo and homepage links have been disabled on the Hugo Themes website until this issue is resolved.

So whenever you find the time to fix the content files, please notify me, so that the demo and the homepage links are restored on the Hugo Themes website.

Thank you.

[DirtyF]

Some generic content would be better.

So now it is mandatory… that escalated quickly.

[onedrawingperday]

I fail to see the escalation. We made a polite request and we didn't quite get a meaningful reply or a time frame for resolution in 25 days.

Please keep communication to a minimum. We are busy people.

If you do not plan to fix the demo content then simply close this issue and I will then completely remove the theme from the Hugo Themes website.

Only if you issue a fix as requested above do contact me.

Thanks.

[bep]

@DirtyF I suggest Forestryio comes up with some generic content you can use in situations like these. And do remember that 1) we run Hugo and its sites on very limited resources (as in: man-hours) so we need to make it as effective as possible 2) I'm pretty sure it is in our guidelines that the content should be neutral/non-promotional. If not, I'll see to it. I suspect this would have been easier to handle if we had handled this before we merged it into the theme repo in the first place. It should be obvious to most people that we cannot be a poster stand for competing products.

[onedrawingperday]

I'm pretty sure it is in our guidelines that the content should be neutral/non-promotional. If not, I'll see to it

@bep It used to be in the guidelines. However after we made theme demos inherit their content from the hugoBasicExample, I removed that reference months ago.

However after this incident, I have re-added the reference and expanded on it over here:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes#example-site

So yes it is mandatory. Typically we do not see such problems with theme submissions.
When this theme was submitted I was away. My fellow maintainer had plenty of themes to review. It's only human that the problem with this theme's content files was not spotted on time.

However that does not mean that we will keep this theme's promotional content in its demo forever on the website. 25 days was already too long.

[DirtyF]

I'll see what I can do, but it's definitely not up in my priorities at the moment. Feel free to remove the theme from your directory, if it makes you less threatened by Gatsby 🤷‍♂

[regisphilibert]

Let's take a deep breath here.

This theme is good and should remain in the directory, that being said I agree content should be generic and don't promote any brand, it being open source or not. And that all themes should follow the guidelines, that goes without saying.

I'll see if we can help @DirtyF and make the content more generic before the end of next week.

Thanks.

[onedrawingperday]

Thank you @regisphilibert

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@DirtyF

For the record the Hugo team does not feel threatened by any other product.

There is a simple rule that needs to be followed:
We do not accept promotions of any kind on the Hugo Themes website.

[onedrawingperday]

@DirtyF

Following the merging of #9 that addressed this issue.

The Novela theme demo was restored on the Hugo Themes website with gohugoio/hugoThemes@5391386

However note that the Homepage button was not restored because the external demo still features the old content.

If you want the link to the external demo re-enabled, you will also need to update the external demo's content and notify me.