Finding Hyvor Blogs is like finding a diamond in the haystack. Multi-language has been such a chore (in time, money, effort) for us. Hyvor's simple, obvious solution (make it native) is a sight for sore eyes, especially for us in Malaysia. So, so, so many of our community organisations have asked for an online presence after they saw our old site on Webflow, but once I tell them how long (or, conversely, how expensive to hire it might be), they aren't as interested.
Not anymore with Hyvor. Hyvor is what I call "batteries included without terrible plastic packaging you want to throw away immediately". For our site, we'd tried Webflow (still our older site's home), Ghost, and WordPress extensively (3+ month test periods). Nothing comes close to Hyvor in multi-lingual and, frankly, speed.
1) Extremely fast & low-overhead. Client-side (and for us editors, too): it's cached extensively, we don't need to do any optimizations to get 95 → 100 PageSpeed on most pages.
2) Multi-lingual works immediately, as you expect, and basically the entire site is translatable.
3) The themes are easy to jump into, the layouts are sensible, and the customization is just enough.
4) You can focus on writing and I think that's Hyvor's best selling point. You don't need to worry about server administration, CSS, plugins, CMS overload (Webflow, ahem!), weird taxonomies, broken routes, etc. It just works and honestly, that's what so, so, many people need. There's no massive buzzword campaign, it doesn't need a No-Code Conference to prove its worth. It works immediately and gets your content published.
5) The support is great. We've worked with Supun Kavinda personally a few times and it's been clear, easy, and fast. Their vision for Hyvor is absolutely right and this trust makes Hyvor a much easier choice to make. Sometimes, web/blog creator applications can take on more than they can chew and the back-end suffers as it wasn't built for that many features. Hyvor always feels just right.
What we'd improve in Hyvor:
1) We like the current feature set, though we wouldn't mind a few small readability niceties like a Table of Contents for longer posts. We've added this as a feature request and, IIRC, Hyvor has put it into their feature update cycle.
2) On the home page or tag pages, it might be neat to have a small hero section at the top to describe that tag. Nothing fancy: the hero section could just be a separate page that's embedded at the top. IIRC, I think this can be manually implemented, but having it natively would be great.
3) Also a confirmed feature request coming down the pipeline, but responsive images would be even better for some mobile pages. This does take a bit of server CPU work (+ storage) to store multiple different image sizes on the server but for clients, it can be a solid performance improvement.
