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Do people not buy understand how to buy and operate cars because the spec sheet has a bunch of technical info on it? The fact remains that they are one-click se

by dangus 2y ago

Do people not buy understand how to buy and operate cars because the spec sheet has a bunch of technical info on it? The fact remains that they are one-click setup solutions. Look at products like EasyWP on Namecheap. https://www.namecheap.com/wordpress/ https://www.namecheap.com/wordpress/ https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting https://www.bluehost.com/wordpress https://www.bluehost.com/wordpress I think a lot of bloggers know that they want/need SSL, DDoS protection, and a CDN. I wouldn't confuse bloggers with the lowest common denominator general public. Let's not put on our rose colored glasses and mistake the classic world wide web for something that didn't need a decent amount of knowledge to setup even in the plain HTML days. A number of WYSIWYG blogging providers in that day (Xanga, LiveJournal) were not interoperable and basically shut down and erased your dat. If you were using a website host like Geocities or something of that sort you needed to have some level of HTML coding knowledge or were using some very limited site builder tools. And I would also say that the WYSIWYG blogging tools that are still out there are far more flexible than your typical closed wall social media platform. Services like Blogger and Medium have full export functionality as a part of their platforms.

carlosjobim 2y ago
> I think a lot of bloggers know that they want/need SSL, DDoS protection, and a CDN. I wouldn't confuse bloggers with the lowest common denominator general public. For each blogger who knows what SSL, DDoS and CDN is, there are a hundred people who write their articles and publish them on Facebook to thousands of followers and millions of views. Or do they not count as bloggers? If we look at the print world, the definition of an author is somebody who writes articles or books. He doesn't have to know how to operate any other machine than a typewriter. Whether he knows how to operate a printing mill has no importance when judging the quality of his penmanship. So why do hackers insist that people who are not Linux server admins do not count as real bloggers? > And I would also say that the WYSIWYG blogging tools that are still out there are far more flexible than your typical closed wall social media platform. Services like Blogger and Medium have full export functionality as a part of their platforms. Yes, they are excellent. And much better solutions for non-developers than self hosting WordPress.

by dangus 2y ago

carlosjobim 2y ago

> I think a lot of bloggers know that they want/need SSL, DDoS protection, and a CDN. I wouldn't confuse bloggers with the lowest common denominator general public. For each blogger who knows what SSL, DDoS and CDN is, there are a hundred people who write their articles and publish them on Facebook to thousands of followers and millions of views. Or do they not count as bloggers? If we look at the print world, the definition of an author is somebody who writes articles or books. He doesn't have to know how to operate any other machine than a typewriter. Whether he knows how to operate a printing mill has no importance when judging the quality of his penmanship. So why do hackers insist that people who are not Linux server admins do not count as real bloggers? > And I would also say that the WYSIWYG blogging tools that are still out there are far more flexible than your typical closed wall social media platform. Services like Blogger and Medium have full export functionality as a part of their platforms. Yes, they are excellent. And much better solutions for non-developers than self hosting WordPress.