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A comment on Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress.

Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by daft_pink on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:41PM (#42651937)
Reality is that Wordpress is not an application for Hacker News techie types who can just create their own whatever. It’s a website appliance where you can have someone design focused apply a design, mash in a few plugins and assign some slightly higher than minimum wage fresh employee to manage your website.

We are not the target market for this product.

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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by Tepix on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:24AM (#42655394)
The wordpress ecosystem is a behemoth. Even it isn't for you and me, it plays a super important role.
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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by bookofjoe on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:43AM (#42655508)
Yes. In previous discussions it was noted repeatedly that 40% of websites use WordPress.
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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by ballfoodsafe on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:31PM (#42657764)
I always find that metric kind of interesting in that it's only grown less than 1% in the last three or four years. In the preceding period of the same length, it gained 10%. I anticipate this year's numbers to show loss, in no small part due to Matt's dogged contributions.
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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by bookofjoe on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:41PM (#42657851)
My sense is that he could well pull the whole house down a là Samson.
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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by jeanlucas on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:16AM (#42655725)
That's like saying PHP is not good enough for HN.

Not everyone here is building an AI based SaaS for YC

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Re:Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by TheNewsIsHere on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:36PM (#42662109)
It’s definitely an overly broad brush.

Usually reinventing every wheel is a waste of time and resources, and that’s why when you need a website, you might reach for WordPress, or Hugo, or Craft, or whatever else.

Not everyone wants to spend development time crafting a custom website platform. Unless you’re trying to craft a custom website platform of course. That’s not most businesses.

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