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Re:Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after a... by dmurray on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:32AM (#49694146)
I think any interpretation of this that would measure "a third of... shopping" by number of individual sites rather than dollar volume is disingenuous at best.

> About a third of all non-big-box/amazon online shopping runs through Woocommerce installations

And as for this:

> 2.84M vs 4.34M is quite a wide margin, wouldn't you agree?

No, I wouldn't. I think that's within the margin of error for the typical methodology of this kind of research. They're the same number.

Re:Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after a... by dofm on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:30AM (#49695092)
I was not trying to be disingenuous.

I did clearly write a mangled sentence, after midnight. It’s wrongly constructed, you are right to say so.