Just deployed a little gimmicky website to evaluate anything on a left-wing/right-wing gauge: https://leftorrightwing.com/

Too scared to ask, but isn't it still the cloud ? The OP is just not using managed services anymore, which is obviously less expensive.

I always thought that all kind of servers in datacenters could be defined as cloud server.

"Cloud" is hyperscalers and managed services.

The idea was, I think, related to network diagrams that showed everything outside of your own border as a cloud icon. (IE; very foggy and unknown).

It never really made much sense, but normally what seems to separate a MSP/service or colocation is the availability of managed object storage and an abstraction on the network.

However, now it seems to have been coopted and now means basically anything that isn't in your closet. However we ran many physical machines we paid for in colocation facilities, and when AWS was coming up there was an understanding that "that's not what the cloud is" among the masses. Despite managing them over the internet. So, a fuzzy term has become more fuzzy.

So much for us being "engineers".

Can't this be qualified more simply as the Parkinson's law in action ?

There's definitely truth to that as the flip side. If you say something will take three years, you'll find some way to stretch it out to three years (or at least 2 1/2) even if you could have gotten something reasonable out in a year.

They do yes. But it seems pretty rare. The most recurrent case I've seen, is for remixes of popular song. Probably that labels can signal these.

This doesn't provide a counterpoint to the original comment's point.

IMHO, it's true that a static site generator should be the way to go in 2023, instead of using a web framework with a db.

I am personally running a hugo blog, on netlify, with netlify CMS. I have 0 costs, great performances, everything needed out of the box. What else to ask for ?

Does your blog support comments?

Also, for a company blog, an SSG likely means a requirement to know Git, which could be inconvenient.

In my blog, comments are not supported, and it would be easy to add if I developed my own blog with Django. But I feel that this single feature does not overweight the simplicity and velocity I have with such setup.

If you really need comments in your blog when using Hugo, you can still integrate them with Disqus https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/

In regards to the requirement to know Git: It is just necessary in the setup phase, the blog posts creation and edition are controlled through Netlify CMS for me.

Interesting, thank you for introducing me to Netlify CMS, didn't know about it.

Great work! This will actually be something very helpful to a lot of people!

I am curious how you gathered so much user input in the short time this project has been alive ? Where did you prospect for more users to input ? and especially, how do you validate that the inputs are valid and not fake inputs and/or spams ?

Recently did the same in a lightweight alternative with python: https://github.com/clemsau/telegram-gpt

Looking to make it accessible, cheap and as lean as possible. I'd love to hear potential features ideas.

can you choose to use gpt4?

I will look into it when I will be granted access to the GPT4. But yeah, I plan to the make accessible the switch between GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 right into telegram.