Yep, and also from here: https://gupsych.github.io/acadweb/project.html

What would the benefits of migrating the website be..?

You don't change any HTML files directly, you merely edit the .md files and Jekyll at GitHub's end takes care of converting it to HTML. So, the overhead for contributors is low. For the PR I made, for example, there would only be one change to the footer file alone. You get a cleaner commit history as well.

Ah, this is what I've been doing anyway, I think, simply in RStudio. Seems to be working okay.. :)

@RaoOfPhysics just visiting this again now after way too long. I hope you're doing splendid!

Do you think this is still something worth doing? Atm I can write the site content in markdown, and then just build the site in RStudio to create all the HTML files, and then push to make it all live online. Is Jekyll still worth looking into..?

Doing well. :) Are you travelling?

Yeah, I still think it's better to keep just the Markdown files under version control and let GitHub handle the generation of the HTML files via Jekyll.

At the moment, if you go through your commit history, you effectively have a duplicate set of commits: foo.Rmd and foo.html are both changed and pushed to GitHub when you make a change in foo.Rmd and tell RStudio to build foo.html.

Instead, you could have only foo.md in your commits, with foo.html (or, even better in my eyes, foo/index.html) being generated online.

Unless you're using any R code in your website to make plots or add interactivity, you're better of using plain Markdown rather than R Markdown.

Gah, sorry for missing this @RaoOfPhysics. Yes, traveling a bit ;)

OK, so, migrating to Jekyll. Reckon we should do this? :)

Consider my knowledge of this to be close to, or less than, zero.

I'd be up for it, but not in any reasonable time scale, unfortunately. How active is the website and when do you think you might want to work on the migration?

Understandable. I just spoke about this with @msantolini and he agreed the migration would be a good idea too.

The website is, er, variably active. I just updated it and you're now on it! https://meta-paleo.github.io/index.html

Congrats on the citation ;)