Hugo has some real usability issues... Let's address them

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hi @anon44707125,

trust me once you go past this frustrating stage where you don’t know how Hugo works etc. you will end up loving it. but yes there are many issues that you will never find the answer to reading through documents or searching online for example this

{{ $titleFirst := split .Title "" | first 1 }} 
# this result in C
{{ $titleFirst := split .Title " " | first 1 }} 
# this result in Company
  1. access to knowledge for beginners is the main issue I see with hugo.
  2. lack of new Hugo tutorials blogs is the second main issue

documentation is not search friendly for example the word “pre” which can be used in the menu pre: gives no clue to what it is and if you need to use this you will never easily find it exist.

I also try to see if I can help in a way to highlight some issues to maybe get more Hugo support by making this post at time I posted Hugo had 67-68 public sponsors on GitHub 2 weeks later today there are only 64. so I see it loosing sponsors 2/week cant say if this is a pattern for long time or just happened now.

most of the Hugo related questions are really basic and mostly repeated the reason being not sufficient beginner friendly uptodate documentation. i made this post to suggest some dummies/ beginner discussions but that was also ignored.

so to sum up out of all the SSG I have tried Hugo seems to be the best option here until I see some new option. learning is really difficult in the beginning comparing to other tools, any recommendations or feedback is usually ignored or aggressively silenced.

So I can say I love Hugo for the simplicity and speed and I hate Hugo for lack of uptodate easy to access knowledge.

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