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Why do I feel like this is the most extreme form of clickbait? Imagine vi or vim was marketed by how many workstations used it for modifications.

• shujito 7y ago
  is it beacause of the company name? I thought it said "automatic development" or something of the sort...
• CharlesW 7y ago
  Isn't "clickbait" sensationalistic? In this case, the title and content strike me as boringly factual.
  • dmix 7y ago
    Software that works with 75M users? Oh wow I gotta click on this!
    • meesles 7y ago
      That scale is not even on the extreme end of articles we are privy to these days. Do you want titles like "How Automattic develops software for websites"? Boring.
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      • azangru 7y ago
        How Automattic develops Wordpress would have been ok :-)
        • bushido 7y ago
          Maybe, but not everyone knows that Automattic is the core team behind Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com.
• tyingq 7y ago
  How they handle the large number of automated WordPress version updates might have fit the title. But it doesn't appear to be mentioned.
• lsinger 7y ago
  I’m not sure about the source of the number, but I assume that that’s WordPress sites hosted by Automattic itself.
• scotty79 7y ago
  I think to remove clickbaitiness you should add to the title that they develop Wordpress. Clickbait is often a result of ommiting some information. Then you click, find the missing info within 10 seconds and bounce off. If there's info in the content that may cause many people to do that, then it should be in the title.