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Wordpress is like Apache or Sendmail. A 500-headed monster. It's simple enough to use and does everything. It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't nee

by staunch 17y ago

Wordpress is like Apache or Sendmail. A 500-headed monster. It's simple enough to use and does everything. It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't need all the extra stuff it does. Certainly not at the expense of security. Apache => Nginx Sendmail => Postfix Wordpress => _______ That is room for an enterprising open source developer.

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tptacek 17y ago
I trust Apache. I don't trust Sendmail but there's an emotional component to that; I would have laughed at you for using it in 1999, but I think 2 decades of analysis has to produce some result. There's something more going on with Wordpress than simple complexity.
pquerna 17y ago
I'm sorry, what? Apache doesn't have security issues at all like Wordpress, you are confusing FLEXIBILITY with INSECURE software.
- staunch 17y ago
  It's had its fair share of problems. Mostly in the past at this point though. It is heavily bloated and overgrown compared with something lean and mean like nginx. Even if Wordpress didn't have security issues there'd be room for an nginx of blogging.
jseliger 17y ago
"It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't need all the extra stuff it does. Certainly not at the expense of security." The problem is that everyone needs a different 20% customized. This is what Joel Spolsky basically argues in Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth: http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html . He's talking about desktop software, but you can see the same essential thing in blogging software; I'm using Wordpress for Grant Writing Confidential at http://blog.seliger.com http://blog.seliger.com chiefly because it has everything I want and is easy to use. The extra stuff I use includes themes and a couple of plugins, like one for generating an XML sitemap and another for cacheing. I know that blogging platform X probably has the particular set of features I need -- until I find something that it can't do.

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tptacek 17y ago

I trust Apache. I don't trust Sendmail but there's an emotional component to that; I would have laughed at you for using it in 1999, but I think 2 decades of analysis has to produce some result. There's something more going on with Wordpress than simple complexity.

pquerna 17y ago

I'm sorry, what? Apache doesn't have security issues at all like Wordpress, you are confusing FLEXIBILITY with INSECURE software.

staunch 17y ago
It's had its fair share of problems. Mostly in the past at this point though. It is heavily bloated and overgrown compared with something lean and mean like nginx. Even if Wordpress didn't have security issues there'd be room for an nginx of blogging.

jseliger 17y ago

"It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't need all the extra stuff it does. Certainly not at the expense of security." The problem is that everyone needs a different 20% customized. This is what Joel Spolsky basically argues in Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth: http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html . He's talking about desktop software, but you can see the same essential thing in blogging software; I'm using Wordpress for Grant Writing Confidential at http://blog.seliger.com http://blog.seliger.com chiefly because it has everything I want and is easy to use. The extra stuff I use includes themes and a couple of plugins, like one for generating an XML sitemap and another for cacheing. I know that blogging platform X probably has the particular set of features I need -- until I find something that it can't do.