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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by hoofhearted »

8organicbits wrote: post #13
dubcanada wrote: post #3

That kind of implies wordpress will last 100 years... Which is unlikely.

Seems likely to me. It's twenty years old and powers >40% of the internet. Old software that reaches that level of adoption for so long has great sticking power. Edit: I suppose the parent meant WordPress.com, the commercial organization that's making this offer, not the open source software itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

It’s like the Ford Edsel; WordPress is so wrapped up in their own technology and echo chamber that they won’t even see a better product coming to the market with features that customers are actually asking for.

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by ta1243 »

jeremyjh wrote: post #27
Ayesh wrote: post #16

It's $38K for 100 years. Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust already, and other registries have jacked up prices in the previous years. But even at a 10% increase a year (likely the case for .com), the domain renewals will cost about $5K for 100 years. With hosting, support, and WordPress being able to run for 100 years,…

Am I the only one horrified at the thought that people will still be using Wordpress in 100 years? I can't really imagine the world in which that happens, it has to have the kind of bleakness to it that in its own way surpasses cyberpunk dystopias.

I agree, it seems crazy to think the human race will still be around to have blogs in 100 years time

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by somenameforme »

echelon wrote: post #33
ohgodplsno wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ? Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it works damn well. Wordpress is 40% of all sites in the world.

I'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.

Take yourself back to 1960. Mankind has never once been to space, though there have been endless efforts to achieve such. The next year Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, Alan Shepherd follows shortly behind him. The following year the President gives a riveting speech about putting a man on the Moon. 7 years later, we land the first man on the Moon. And then do it repeatedly - to the point that dozens of men have walked on the Moon. In 1971 we put the first space station into space, with men began living in it for weeks at a time.

All of that over ~1 decade. Can you even imagine where we'll be in 50 years?

You're there today.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by pavlov »

jeremyjh wrote: post #27
Ayesh wrote: post #16

It's $38K for 100 years. Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust already, and other registries have jacked up prices in the previous years. But even at a 10% increase a year (likely the case for .com), the domain renewals will cost about $5K for 100 years. With hosting, support, and WordPress being able to run for 100 years,…

Am I the only one horrified at the thought that people will still be using Wordpress in 100 years? I can't really imagine the world in which that happens, it has to have the kind of bleakness to it that in its own way surpasses cyberpunk dystopias.

Lots of people read something called the New York Times today, but it’s not printed on the same hot metal typesetting machine they used in 1923 (or printed at all).

Similarly it doesn’t seem too unlikely that people would be publishing on a platform called Wordpress in 2123.

If there’s anything left of the original PHP code, it will probably have been transformed and rewritten many times over by AI because we already have the capability for that, just missing some context window to process a Wordpress-sized code base.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by Waterluvian »

It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it.

100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout.

It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by miragecraft »

jacquesm wrote: post #39
miragecraft wrote: post #35

Prepaying 100 years to secure your digital legacy hinges on the sad premise that no one else will bother to keep it going. Like a swan song that lasts way too long through sheer financial will.

This is one of the major differences between digital and paper: digital requires constant upkeep. If you'd replace the inscriptions on pyrymids and obelisks as well as the various old documents with their digital equivalent we'd have lost them long ago. And they will still be there long after their current digital equivalents have turned to dust. The only defense that digital has is boundless copies, in the hope that…

We have the Internet Archive though, so you’re really just paying for search engine discoverability and… domain name squatting as a dead person.

I’d bet that the Internet Archive will last longer than Wordpress as an organization.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by harshreality »

Things are not nearly as predictable 100 years out as they are 1 or 10.

A 100-year plan is for WordPress.com's benefit, not yours. They get a predictable accounting revenue stream for 100 years if they continue to exist; if not, no problem for them, they still got the money, while you get nothing (or whatever a bankruptcy court says). You get... hosting for 100 years. Maybe. What are the odds, and are you factoring that into the price you pay?

It reminds me of file locker sites' "lifetime subscriptions", which amount to however long they continue to operate before the owners lose interest in the hassle or get sued and have to shut down.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by andrepd »

echelon wrote: post #33
ohgodplsno wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ? Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it works damn well. Wordpress is 40% of all sites in the world.

I'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.

Well sounds like you're gonna be disappointed.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by Daril »

I don't understand if this is a joke or a desperate attempt to collect money ...

Tomorrow morning (like any other company of course) Wordpress could go bankrupt and they promise to guarantee the status quo for the next 100 years ...

As someone who has just spent a week trying to integrate the Wordpress API into an external software, I really hoped that they would make an announcement that they have decided to fix all this incredible mess of many years old APIs, incredibly survived all the technological improvements and make a professional and exhaustive developer documentation ...

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