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Fresh take. What could Automatic do to make things better for themselves? Launch a WordPress-related more easily managed solution with support for some legacy W

• anon7000 2y ago
  They have been trying to make a more easily managed solution since forever. All of the work they sponsor on Gutenberg and full site editing in WP has made complete GUI editing of your site completely possible using a portable data format. That wasn’t possible 5 years ago. Problem is, the market for people who want an easy website doesn’t have a lot of money! Not everyone needs a site these days, and many just stick with a single page “link in bio” type thing. So the money is in businesses who need something more… which is by definition more complex. So Automattic has some massive, massive enterprise clients (including government agencies), but there are other more powerful enterprise tools too. Plus, at that point you’re selling a hosting platform and cloud resources, not managed WP. Automattic has even tried to make a newsletter subscription like Substack and it didn’t really catch on (https://wordpress.com/support/paid-newsletters/ https://wordpress.com/support/paid-newsletters/)
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• x0x0 2y ago
  I think ghettoization, whether you agree with the characterization or not, is driven by how much devops / security work / handholding a deployed app needs. And wordpress needs a LOT of that. When the popular solution requires a ton of work, people will naturally look for alternatives that don't involve them being a sysadmin, which they may well not even have the skills to do.