WordPress Is in Trouble

Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by andrewmcwatters on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:24PM (#42688614)

This is the right time. Strike while the iron is hot. People are angry and concerned. Someone just needs to come forward with an attractive way to capitalize on the situation.

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by hombre_fatal on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:29PM (#42688702)

But the problem is that if Wordpress disappears overnight, you're left with a sea of alternatives that's 100x larger than when Wordpress rose to popularity.

Ex-Wordpress users are just going to diffuse into all the other decent options that already exist. Or stick with a Wordpress fork that caters to them. Though note that Wordpress isn't going away. How many Wordpress users even know who Mullenweg is?

The idea of cobbling together yet another blog platform that will somehow capture these users better than Wordpress plus all the decent incumbents is some good ol fashioned developer hubris. :P

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by munchler on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:01PM (#42689248)

There are many examples of an entrenched incumbent being displaced by a new killer app. All it takes is the right new features and perhaps a path from the old to the new.

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