They don't have a lot of data to serve, though, I imagine. You can store a lot of magazine and blog articles in 64GB of server memory. I don't think they have

They don't have a lot of data to serve, though, I imagine. You can store a lot of magazine and blog articles in 64GB of server memory. I don't think they have the kind of scaling problems that more social and peer-to-peer applications have. I could be wrong though. Still it seems they wouldn't have chosen Word Press, unless they really wanted some of the editorial and journalism-focused plugins and features. Some organizations swear by that stuff, and the writers and editors get used to those features. We might not interact with the features that the writers and editors love. So, yeah, though Wordpress is a nightmare, it might still be the best choice for Wired. If I was starting a blog with a community of writers, I might actually just use Google docs for collaborative editing, and then have some sort of publication tool that pushes from Google docs to a more streamlined custom back-end (probably written in Go since I've had a good experience with it so far). But this is just a naive opinion of mine, based on having absolutely no experience with actual journalism and publishing. I imagine I would soon discover many disastrous aspects of my harebrained architecture.