Digital scholarly editing now confronts a decisive paradox: the more technologically ambitious an edition becomes, the more vulnerable it may be to disappearance. Del Rio Riande and Viglianti argue that digital scholarly editions, although central to the history of digital humanities, remain exposed to the “digital entropy” of software, funding, institutional hosting, and technical maintenance . This problem is not merely technical; it is epistemological and geopolitical, since dependence on costly infrastructures privileges well-funded institutions, usually in the Global North, while marginalising scholars working under conditions of scarcity. The proposition of minimal computing therefore becomes intellectually urgent: not a retreat from sophistication, but a disciplined recalibration of necessity. Static websites, open standards, TEI data, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript exemplify a low-infrastructure editorial ecology capable of preserving access without demanding perpetual server-side intervention. The case of legacy digital humanities projects converted into static sites demonstrates both the vulnerability of complex platforms and the durability of modest architectures. Yet the most persuasive case study is the authors’ synthesis of Latin American and transnational practice, where limited funding stimulates inventive, locally adaptable workflows rather than passive dependency on institutional systems. Such work reframes infrastructure as a matter of care, ownership, and scholarly autonomy. Ultimately, the future of the global digital edition lies not in abandoning technical ambition, but in designing publications whose survival is not contingent upon invisible, fragile, or exclusionary systems.