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   by photomatt 2y ago

   We've expanded our HackerOne and other security apparatus to cover the top 100 plugins directly and do our best to work with every plugin in the directory, including many contributions from web hosts who of course want their sites to b
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   by photomatt 2y ago

   Migration is horrible right now, making it better is part of the Data Liberation focus this year.
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   by photomatt 2y ago

   It's too bad you didn't go into using WordPress for higher-end sites. We're seeing huge growth on the enterprise side, which Automattic calls VIP, including taking significant share from Sitecore, Drupal, Magento, Adobe, and
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   by photomatt 2y ago

   You've got some pretty compelling arguments for why WordPress shouldn't work, it's I think even more interesting to figure out why it has. Especially on a site like HN, which has "terrible" UI and code, it even stil
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   by photomatt 2y ago

   Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ We're looking for great engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, J
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   by photomatt 3y ago

   I dislike that third-party advertising network stuff too, hopefully we can get rid of it soon and replace with Blaze, no calls to third-party ad networks.
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   by photomatt 3y ago

   Our three missions are to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging. This fits in the third.
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   by photomatt 3y ago

   Thank you!
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   by photomatt 3y ago

   Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Senior Systems Engineer (Systems Wrangler) | $110-$210k+ We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports over a billion people each
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Senior Systems Engineer (Systems Wrangler) | $110-$210k+ We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports over a billion people each
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    There's different ways to count it, but I'd estimate it was maybe a low % of posts but it was 30-40% of the user interest and traffic.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    It's really hard to get people to switch one at a time, you have to bring over whole networks for it to work. It has to be a community switching together. Threads has been successful because they can promote it so much from Instagram.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I love custom domains, and subdomains, but with the way cookies and everything work now you really have to put everything in a sub-directory, so I'd recommend the first approach.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Even when we do leak, it's thoughtful. You can tell whoever did it cropped out a bunch of stuff, including the text that would have tripped the Texts acquisition that wasn't announced at the time. I still don't love it, but a
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I think this is a pretty fair assessment.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    For the YC audience: Tumblr has about 60B images using 8 petabytes of storage. 205TB of memory, 46,752 CPU threads, 250 kW of energy. About 100k requests a second, a petabyte a day of bandwidth.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I answered a ton of questions about this, on my Tumblr using the Asks feature: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    We have a lot of flexibility with this role, and I'm happy to spend time personally with whoever joins. :) I love Hacker News and people who read it.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Every day! We have 198 people working on product for WP.com and as part of our Five for the Future commitment have 100 full-time people dedicated to core and community. There are a lot more FTEs in volunteer hours across Automattic being co
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Totally!
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    You can use labels and other features in Texts to prioritize across networks. We're forced to group networks when what we really care about is people.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    That's hilarious. :) To the OP, I don't even drink coffee, I drink tea! So I should probably come up with better analogies. But I'm very sensitive to the fact, especially in the social media and messaging space, that people a
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I'm worried it might be too low as well, but we did a ton of modeling and tried to build in a quantum of safety for unknown unknowns. I expect this will cost more in the future.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I'm really excited to have Vox and Verge and New York Magazine and Eater and The Cut and Polygon and and and... on WordPress! Big win for open source.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    The notes app is a real thing! https://wptavern.com/blocknotes-app-runs-wordpress-natively-...
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Bet on Moore's Law and go fully dynamic.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    Nice! Updated profile.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    On the business plan (25/mo) you can run any plugin or theme, or custom code. You also have full SSH/SFTP and wp-cli access.
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I tried to make a big deal about this in my State of the Word keynote in December 2022: https://wordpress.tv/2023/01/04/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-... It kind of blew my mind as an engineer to see it work, a
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    by photomatt 3y ago

    I'm happy to pitch in and help migrate those university sites, we can get them on a WordPress stack that's much more stable and forward-compatible.