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> WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system I'm not

> WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system I'm not sure I see how the absence of a revision tracking system rises to a violation of sacred principles.

sgammon 2y ago
You can also just turn it on by emailing support...
- SadTrombone 2y ago
  You can turn on an extremely limited version. Did you read the post?
  - sgammon 2y ago
    I did read the post, yes. Why does everyone keep asking everyone that?
    - jodrellblank 2y ago
      Because they don't read the HN guidelines: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that"" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sgammon 2y ago
  Are my downvoters here drafting posts that have greater than 5 revisions? Or?
np_tedious 2y ago
The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.
- snowwrestler 2y ago
  According to whom? I’ve developed and run Wordpress sites for nearly 15 years and never enabled revisions on a single one. This whole line of thinking—one person defining the “core tenet” or whatever—seems directly contrary to the ethos of open source. If Matt doesn’t think people should be able to turn off revisions, he should put that in the license. Otherwise, users can do what they want and open source leaders should celebrate that.
  - echoangle 2y ago
    Isn’t it even just a setting they changed? From my understanding they didn’t even change the code, they just changed the setting from the default.
x0x0 2y ago
Not to mention I'm skeptical the majority of WPEngine sites are blogs, particularly with prices starting at $240 a year. Rather they're company marketing sites. That's certainly what I used WPEngine for, and the service was well made, particularly their ability to test WP updates in staging.

sgammon 2y ago

You can also just turn it on by emailing support...

SadTrombone 2y ago
You can turn on an extremely limited version. Did you read the post?
- sgammon 2y ago
  I did read the post, yes. Why does everyone keep asking everyone that?
  - jodrellblank 2y ago
    Because they don't read the HN guidelines: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that"" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
sgammon 2y ago
Are my downvoters here drafting posts that have greater than 5 revisions? Or?

np_tedious 2y ago

The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.

snowwrestler 2y ago
According to whom? I’ve developed and run Wordpress sites for nearly 15 years and never enabled revisions on a single one. This whole line of thinking—one person defining the “core tenet” or whatever—seems directly contrary to the ethos of open source. If Matt doesn’t think people should be able to turn off revisions, he should put that in the license. Otherwise, users can do what they want and open source leaders should celebrate that.
- echoangle 2y ago
  Isn’t it even just a setting they changed? From my understanding they didn’t even change the code, they just changed the setting from the default.

x0x0 2y ago

Not to mention I'm skeptical the majority of WPEngine sites are blogs, particularly with prices starting at $240 a year. Rather they're company marketing sites. That's certainly what I used WPEngine for, and the service was well made, particularly their ability to test WP updates in staging.