All blogs look alike
All blogs look alike
Static site generators often converge to similar looking results because they share design patterns, tooling, and default themes.
-- chatgpt
"Visuals are not so important" - you may argue.
I cannot agree, because when I am about to read someone else work which gives me the impression to be the same style of the previous 5 person's blogs I read, well.. it feels like there is no effort behind creating your own space. And that "impression" is basically given by "wall of white text on grey background, with some headers to divide content".
And i know that because even after having chosen a theme for my personal site, powered by hugo, I now see it as a mere copy/paste and I don't like it very much anymore.
Mine has no blog posts, just static pages, but I'll think about moving away from hugo, zola, jekyll etc, or try to - at least - restyle it. ATM I only changed some colors and maybe a few other insignificant particulars, because having it "ready to go" was the actual beauty about a static site.. wasn't it?
@wpn was only a single HTML page until less than 2 years ago. I still have everything packed up and I honestly still think about that every now and then, even if a it was kind of a pain to make changes every time there was some news to post. Damn, it also featured a comment section powered by isso.
It was original.