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by anon7000 2y ago
Why on earth would it be unethical? They are creating a process for retrying a payment for which the customer is already responsible. Maybe the customer ultimately decides to cancel, maybe not, but a business is free to take into account wh
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by anon7000 2y ago
Many configuration files for tools in the JS ecosystem actually do allow both of those through json5 ( https://json5.org/ )
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by anon7000 2y ago
What do you mean forced upon you? There is no requirement for you to use new features. If you do, it’s because you or your team thinks it’s more convenient — and it really is! map, filter, arrow functions, scope improvements with const&#x2F
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by anon7000 2y ago
This isn’t really true on a practical level any more. ES6 support is very widespread (97% of all web users according to caniuse.) That even includes module import syntax! There are still some new language features that need to be transpiled
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by anon7000 2y ago
The funny part is that it’s actually not a pain in the ass to distribute. On iOS, saving the current link to the homescreeen installs the PWA (if available). You don’t have to do anything other than tap a button in the share menu. iOS treat
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by anon7000 2y ago
Oh, well I can provide an example. Music League’s PWA on iOS is quite a bit better than the app — partly because you can avoid the ads! Performance isn’t incredible, but neither is the “native” app (95% sure it’s react native or similar), w
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by anon7000 2y ago
There was a nice video recently about how the OGs optimized the site so well. https://youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ
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by anon7000 2y ago
I definitely like this approach, but a big problem is how social media captivates your attention, gets you addicted, and then you’re watching whatever the algorithm wants. At that point, it gets very, very hard to have a meaningful conversa
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mean. The situation is actually very simple. WordPress.com has a “business/pro” plan that lets you install plugins. Lower level plans do not allow that. (WordPress.com was initially just a big multisite with everyone’s blogs running
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by anon7000 2y ago
Don’t worry, there is a signed contract in place!
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mean, it’s a lot. Certainly the majority of regular contributors. Probably 80-100ish full time employees working solely on WordPress OSS projects. (Some in community roles, executive director, tech leads, devs, designers, etc.) There are
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mean. It’s too early to say. If we’re talking raw traffic — the high profile enterprise sites have long term contracts. And it’s VERY hard to migrate hosting providers, let alone entire CMSes. So it will take a long period of enterprises
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by anon7000 2y ago
Because it’s one of the most prolific OSS projects on the web, and hosts more than 40% of websites (and that number was growing until a year or two ago)? It was pretty sensible when it was created compared to other CMSes of the day! So “nev
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by anon7000 2y ago
Yeah the DHH post is an example or projection… Automattic is hosting a lot of WordPress sites but not making anywhere near as much money as the WP Engines and Go Daddy’s of the ecosystem. (And yet automattic contributes the most to the proj
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by anon7000 2y ago
There is no chance the license changes. Matt has been a very, very vocal supporter of GPL. This self-described war he’s going on is all about commercial trademarks, and other hosting companies having more commercial success than Automatti
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by 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. T
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mean, there are tradeoffs with both approaches. It seems to me that Node’s stateful approach is used by other web servers and languages too. The main tradeoff is you’re now reloading the entire server for every request in PHP. If you have
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by anon7000 2y ago
They’re literally just adding some extra text in the checkout flow to make it more clear to consumers. It’s just been a license for decades
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by anon7000 2y ago
For sure! In a basic API endpoint, I don’t need advanced typescript features. But if I’m writing a module that a lot of other consumers in the codebase will use, and I want to make their lives easy, I might use a lot of advanced TS features
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mentioned this deeper in the comment chain, but WordPress the OSS software is used by a lot of people. But there are many WordPress hosting companies, so no single legal entity would come anywhere close to a monopoly. By that logic, Linux
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by anon7000 2y ago
I don’t see how that’s even remotely possible. There are so many WP competitors it’s not even funny. Being OSS, it’s very easy to export your data from WordPress. So you could easily move from one of Matt’s hosting companies to somewhere el
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by anon7000 2y ago
At least — or six months salary, which is higher (and even substantially higher) than $30k for I’d guess most people leaving
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by anon7000 2y ago
I mean does it matter if whether it’s a good thing to want? WordPress powers 40% of the web because it was convenient, powerful, and easy for someone with basic web skills to hack around with. The same things that people complain about toda
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by anon7000 2y ago
I worked at Automattic and the connections you could develop with your coworkers were fantastic. Almost everyone was kind, helpful, and encouraging, and I did my best to bring a positive attitude every day. Nearly everything being written c
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by anon7000 2y ago
I think it was explained elsewhere, but Automattic has the commercial trademark rights, partly because they owned the trademark before the WP foundation was created.
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by anon7000 2y ago
I think it was explained elsewhere, but Automattic has the commercial trademark rights, so licensing money wouldn’t be transferred to a non-profit foundation.