The main website hasn’t had any new official blog entries for7 months, when the last update to the Admin page’s news feed was generated. Outside the forum, there doesn’t seem to be much action. Three years ago they were talking about Grav2 and PHP8 and whatnot, but nothing since. I’d love to be wrong, since I’m running websites on it. Yes, there was an update yesterday, but, beyond that, Grav looks like a ghost town. Do I need to start thinking about a move to a different CMS that is under active development?
NVM, I found the discord.
The CHANGELOG is a better indicator of development.
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Might want to pin this. I imagine most people who reach this board are going to be asking the same question (I was)
I think many people will wonder this at some point after digging around, but I’m in two minds about pinning this thread. If I was to guess the state of the project, I think it’s active but under-resourced. An announcement-style notice from a team member might have more credibility than a thread with people discussing it.
As it happens, I found the graph of discord, where most of the ongoing conversation is taking place. Basically, there is one primary developer, the creator of Grav, who is still putting in around 20 hours a week on the core project. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind some help, and if I was a PHP instead of a .NET developer, i’d be inclined to help. In any event, some development effort is continuing.
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It’s been a while since this post and not much happened apart from security updates and support for PHP8 updates.
It feels like the project is still supported which is great, but it doesn’t fell like it’s actively developed and improved for the last few years.
I was considering supporting the project by actually buying some premium plugins, I wanted to try the NextGen content editor, but then I saw it disappear from the premium page and from the plugin page it actually says not currently on sale. I haven’t seen any explanation about it. And I believe that happened to some other plugins as well, because I remember seeing a longer list.
I really don’t want to move to another CMS because I always loved Grav, how simple and lightweight it is. But I also can’t find a suitable alternative, What’s considered the best flat file cms is Statamic, but it has a price I can’t justify for the kind of small websites I build.
If you have any news or opinion please let me know.
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well, I’ve also been thinking about this topic from time to time, and even written something on my own Blog (in german),
although that is more about concerns about what will happen when I’m gone.
in which case I would prefer to leave a static site behind, which is easier to keep alive than something based on a CMS.
but, for the time beeing, I’ll surely stick with Grav, which by far fits best my needs, compared to all CMSes I’ve been working with so far (including Wordpress, Typo3, Contao, Joomla, GetSimple and others).
And, as for what has been stated in this thread so far, I also agree to the assumption that Grav’s main problem is the lack of active Developer(s).
Especially for the maintenance/troubleshooting of themes and plugins, a topic that has also been discussed here several times, with no practical outcome (that I would be aware of).
I think many of us regulars and old hands would like to help, even just helping clear the backlog of open issues. While contributions have often been welcome, major input has always been tightly controlled in my experience. I say this realising it’s no simple matter just “opening up more”.
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