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Movable Type never had the foothold that Wordpress has developed over the years. Once you reach a certain size, inertia alone will allow you to survive for a v
by toyg 2y ago
Movable Type never had the foothold that Wordpress has developed over the years.
Once you reach a certain size, inertia alone will allow you to survive for a very long time, even making bad mistakes. Digg died because it was still small enough that a mistake could kill it; Reddit is now so big that the exact same mistakes (or even worse ones) will just not stop it. Same for Twitter or Facebook. Wordpress is way past the size where it will take something more than an isolated legal case to cut it to size.
- ubermonkey 2y agoThat's definitely true, but MW shouldn't mistake inertia for immortality. WP doesn't really do anything novel. I disagree about Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately; it's been in all the papers.
- toyg 2y ago> Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately I know, but it has taken more than two years to take serious wounds and it's still very far from being dead.
- dumah 2y agoAs of 11 months ago, Fidelity had marked down their stake by 71%. As of now, it’s 80%. Are you saying that your threshold for “serious” is more than a 71% loss of value? These losses are squarely in the territory of those who are commonly labeled as “worst ceo’s of all time”.