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1. bastard_op · 1790439737 · focus · HN ↗

   I'm surprised anyone still uses wordpress after this whole sh!tshow, but outside HN folks probably don't even know. Just reading about it about it puts me off from the product and company.

   1. bsoqk · 1790441383 · focus · HN ↗

      If I had to stop using all the software whose politics I find problematic I would have to earn a living breaking rocks.

      1. dgellow · 1790441690 · focus · HN ↗

         Deciding to not use Wordpress isn’t that hard though

         1. stephbook · 1790442006 · focus · HN ↗

            I have an amateur website up and running where club members can book an accomodation.

            Most other software wants more than the $100 one time payment that some random WordPress plugin demanded (VikBooking.)

            1. iAMkenough · 1790447565 · focus · HN ↗

               Since security isn’t a concern, why not use $100 in AI tokens to build your own solution? Could then market it as a replacement to VikBooking and sell it yourself to other amateur clubs.

               1. to11mtm · 1790450656 · focus · HN ↗

                  Because the problem is more complicated than that.

                  I'll give the example case from my real life.

                  My wife and one of my best friends want to start a blog. My wife has some wordpress experience from her last job.

                  There isn't a big expectation for revenue, this is a hobby project.

                  At least when I did my 'shopping', a managed wordpress instance as far as cost, was somewhere between 'as cheap as just doing self-maintained custom solution hosted' and 'a little bit more but the extra 3-10$ a month versus my time to actually maintain it' stopped me dead in my tracks of Vibe coding an alternative.

                  IOW, the 'long tail' of wordpress, is the ecosystem of managed providers that exist where the user (at least as long as they are careful about plugins?) doesn't have to worry about updating the core bits, the provider takes care of that for them and can do it at a volume that makes it palatable.

                  1. judahmeek · 1790465057 · focus · HN ↗

                     Actually, for a blog, I'd look at Substack, Beehiiv, & Ghost.

                     1. to11mtm · 1790561169 · focus · HN ↗

                        I'd have to look into Beehiiv and Ghost, not familiar with those.

                        Substack has shifted a bit too much towards 'subscribe-ish' type popups in the last 2ish years for me to trust it as an option; independent niche publishers ideally don't want to risk someone getting confused or driven away by a paywall threat.

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