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Reality is that Wordpress is not an application for Hacker News techie types who can just create their own whatever. It’s a website appliance where you can hav
by daft_pink 2y ago
Reality is that Wordpress is not an application for Hacker News techie types who can just create their own whatever. It’s a website appliance where you can have someone design focused apply a design, mash in a few plugins and assign some slightly higher than minimum wage fresh employee to manage your website.
We are not the target market for this product.
- Tepix 2y agoThe wordpress ecosystem is a behemoth. Even it isn't for you and me, it plays a super important role.
- bookofjoe 2y agoYes. In previous discussions it was noted repeatedly that 40% of websites use WordPress.
- ballfoodsafe 2y agoI always find that metric kind of interesting in that it's only grown less than 1% in the last three or four years. In the preceding period of the same length, it gained 10%. I anticipate this year's numbers to show loss, in no small part due to Matt's dogged contributions.
- bookofjoe 2y agoMy sense is that he could well pull the whole house down a là Samson.
- jeanlucas 2y agoThat's like saying PHP is not good enough for HN. Not everyone here is building an AI based SaaS for YC
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoIt’s definitely an overly broad brush. Usually reinventing every wheel is a waste of time and resources, and that’s why when you need a website, you might reach for WordPress, or Hugo, or Craft, or whatever else. Not everyone wants to spend development time crafting a custom website platform. Unless you’re trying to craft a custom website platform of course. That’s not most businesses.