throwgfdtr2024

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   by throwgfdtr2024 2y ago

   I don't know how different wordpress.com is to 'typical' WPMU (wordpress multi-user) as is deployed by e.g. some large universities, where tens of thousands of blogs can exist in one single database instance, served by one si
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   by throwgfdtr2024 2y ago

   I am a fan of the way Matt thinks, and I absolutely adore what he did for Simplenote. I don't get the Beeper acquisition at all. But maybe it has some core technology value.
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   by throwgfdtr2024 2y ago

   All of them and none of them. Because really we're talking about serving pages from content fragments in a SQL database, with a style separation and dynamic content constructs. It's not a radical idea; you can write your own thing
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   by throwgfdtr2024 2y ago

   He's one of the least egomaniac CEOs in the entire industry. What do you imagine this move involves, infrastructurewise? Why is it boneheaded?
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   by throwgfdtr2024 2y ago

   Why? Wordpress.com, the hosted platform, has about 70-80 million new posts per month, in a massive, social-media-giant-type database, supporting a tightly locked-down, customised WP infrastructure (which even has a different admin UI AFAIK)