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It’s entered the utility collapse curve. MySpace still exists but you can pinpoint the plateau and decline. Wordpress will not grow from here on out, it will s

It’s entered the utility collapse curve. MySpace still exists but you can pinpoint the plateau and decline. Wordpress will not grow from here on out, it will shrink. Likewise, that “40%” number never says how many of those websites have been updated in the past year. My guess is less than half of currently hosted Wordpress sites are “active” in any real sense. I see no reason any anybody starting today would pick Wordpress. The drama is only going to accelerate the inevitable decline.

macinjosh 2y ago
I provided reasons some in my original post. But not everyone looking for a CMS is terminally online and plugged into X/HN tech circles nor care when creating a website for their client's muffler shop. Those who do not like the SaaS business models for whatever reason (and there are many) still have incentive to use WordPress, a fork, or some other open source CMS. I don't understand why the social death of WP/Matt M. equals the demise of open source content management in general. If anything, with AI empowering more people to do technical things I see a bigger opening for open source CMSs going forward. Training data for open source stuff will be all over the web, while training data for WebFlow and squarespace etc. will be largely limited to their support site which might even be gated.
- fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
  Who said anything about open source demise in general? Wordpress is past its prime, has always been a wrapper over a hideous dogshit codebase, has bad leadership, is in a crisis, and will slowly disappear. It’s natural, and not a big deal. Wordpress pushed out other options, and now they too will fall. Something else will come along. The article is spot on.
  - wink 2y ago
    > WordPress usage has plateaued. Spot on in observing this, everything else is not so tangible. It does not really go into what the future of the web will look like, except maybe even more shifting to hosted walled gardens, but that's not exactly breaking news.

macinjosh 2y ago

I provided reasons some in my original post. But not everyone looking for a CMS is terminally online and plugged into X/HN tech circles nor care when creating a website for their client's muffler shop. Those who do not like the SaaS business models for whatever reason (and there are many) still have incentive to use WordPress, a fork, or some other open source CMS. I don't understand why the social death of WP/Matt M. equals the demise of open source content management in general. If anything, with AI empowering more people to do technical things I see a bigger opening for open source CMSs going forward. Training data for open source stuff will be all over the web, while training data for WebFlow and squarespace etc. will be largely limited to their support site which might even be gated.

fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
Who said anything about open source demise in general? Wordpress is past its prime, has always been a wrapper over a hideous dogshit codebase, has bad leadership, is in a crisis, and will slowly disappear. It’s natural, and not a big deal. Wordpress pushed out other options, and now they too will fall. Something else will come along. The article is spot on.
- wink 2y ago
  > WordPress usage has plateaued. Spot on in observing this, everything else is not so tangible. It does not really go into what the future of the web will look like, except maybe even more shifting to hosted walled gardens, but that's not exactly breaking news.