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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by moralestapia »

bartvk wrote: post #65
Waterluvian wrote: post #46

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.

A money grab from the people of WordPress? The company that has probably done the most for the development of the web? I find it hard to see it that way.

> The company that has probably done the most for the development of the web?

Lol, excuse me?

I know WP is big but take a moment to reflect on that statement, WP is far from that.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by anonzzzies »

Waterluvian wrote: post #46

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.

Almost all ‘lifetime subs’ are scams; a company has to be massive to support it and if it doesn’t work out for smaller companies, the consequences don’t matter anyway.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by naillo »

bartvk wrote: post #65
Waterluvian wrote: post #46

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.

A money grab from the people of WordPress? The company that has probably done the most for the development of the web? I find it hard to see it that way.

This feels like bordering on flamebait

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by willis936 »

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.

Brain uploads don't cheat death. Let's say you made a digital clone of your brain. Your last thought would be "oh shit I'm dying". The description of you is not the thing you inherently try to protect, but the physical brain itself. Your brain's contents change quite often compared to the medium.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by jeremyjh »

somenameforme wrote: post #44
echelon wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 m…

Yet 2023 is barely different from 2013.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by willis936 »

gruturo wrote: post #38
echelon wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There Will Be Screws. (and rivets. Joints. Pipes. Flanges, if we're unlucky)

And all of those things if we're lucky. If we're unlucky it will be edges of chiseled stone. If we're really unlucky it won't be anything at all.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by [deleted] »

bartvk wrote: post #65
Waterluvian wrote: post #46

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.

A money grab from the people of WordPress? The company that has probably done the most for the development of the web? I find it hard to see it that way.

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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by moralestapia »

pavlov wrote: post #45
jeremyjh wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Weird argument, you're mixing things up.

The NYT is a media property and a trademark, they can choose to deliver their content on any platform they want.

Wordpress is one of such platforms to deliver content (like the hot metal typesetting machine). Other sites could still be around and ditch Wordpress for any other new platform that comes up. And GP would be horrified to think that 100 years from now, people would still use said platform to deliver their content.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by alberth »

Ponzi Scheme

Any “forever” or “unlimited” are forms of a Ponzi scheme.

Note: I not saying Wordpress is being malicious. I’m just saying that for the economics of a “forever” or “unlimited” to work, you need to find new money to offset the old costs - and a lot of really good companies have had to learn this lesson the hard way.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by topato »

bartvk wrote: post #65
Waterluvian wrote: post #46

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.

A money grab from the people of WordPress? The company that has probably done the most for the development of the web? I find it hard to see it that way.

I think this is supposed to be sarcastic
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