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There's room for an extensible blog platform like WordPress but with well defined performance safeguards for plugins and themes. WP users never rate plugins or
by jjoe 10y ago
There's room for an extensible blog platform like WordPress but with well defined performance safeguards for plugins and themes. WP users never rate plugins or themes based on performance because performance degradation due to plugins or themes is rarely visible to the end user. So they're almost always rated based on functionality.
So if you could somehow build performance-safe extensibility, you could emerge as a solid alternative especially if you continue targeting developers (they spread the word more effeciently.
Anyway, perhaps I'm biased w.r.t performance because I built Cachoid (for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) but this could be a niche with interesting growth.
- joelennon 10y agoThanks for the feedback. It will be challenging to offer both extensibility and performance safeguards. One idea I had was to do some form of performance evaluation of each theme/plugin and show a score or impact grade to the user when they are enabling it. A bit like how Google Fonts shows you the impact of the web fonts you've selected on page weight. I know a few people who have had problems with speed with their Wordpress sites, will tell them to check out Cachoid.
- jjoe 10y agoYes it's definitely a challenging undertaking, which is why no one has come up with such platform. > One idea I had was to do some form of performance evaluation of each theme/plugin and show a score or impact grade to the user when they are enabling it This would be good. You can also crowdsource part of that effort if it's time intensive. * > I know a few people who have had problems with speed with their Wordpress sites, will tell them to check out Cachoid. * Feel free to pass on my email (joe@). Thanks so much!