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Re: The Next WordPress

#11

Post by joecool1029 »

thinkling wrote: post #9
Entangled wrote: post #3

I believe Medium is the next Wordpress because not only allows you to publish but also to consume in an elegant and productive way. The recommendation engine is quite good and the daily newsletter sent by email is good enough to make me want to check the stories right away. They make an extensive use of images that really adds to the user experience. I used to be a Wordpress fan but now Medium has caught my attention…

The context is sites with custom features. Medium isn't in that market. Medium is the new Blogspot.

Or xanga, or livejournal, etc.

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by onnimonni »

I would like to see a simple but extendable cms which would be mostly static but the non static parts would be handled by aws lambda or gce functions or something similiar.

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by gk1 »

return0 wrote: post #4

I think the author assumes that all wordpress sites are simple blogs. Woocommerce alone powers 30% of e-commerce sites.

What makes you think that? The word "blog" is nowhere in the article. It's clear to me they're talking about WP the platform.

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by xiaoma »

Entangled wrote: post #3

I believe Medium is the next Wordpress because not only allows you to publish but also to consume in an elegant and productive way. The recommendation engine is quite good and the daily newsletter sent by email is good enough to make me want to check the stories right away. They make an extensive use of images that really adds to the user experience. I used to be a Wordpress fan but now Medium has caught my attention…

Is Medium even customizable now? I've mostly been avoiding the site due to getting sick of the tacky tweet-begging UX whenever you select any of the text in a post. A huge number of WP sites are professional or semiprofessional and have plugins and/or customization that allow the operators to run a business from the site. Can Medium do any of that? Are there plugins for it yet?

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by tmikaeld »

First of all, Wordpress is known to fix security issues quickly and platforms with many developers have more eyes on the code so it's only natural that they have a LOT of reported vulnerabilities. This does not mean that it's "inherently" insecure.

A static site can't enable...

- User management (Members)

- On-site-comments (That Search engines can find)

- Voting (Polls & Ratings are very popular on Wordpress!)

- Carts (For selling products)

- Any user submitted content

...without 3rd party services that rely on JS.

This means that you rely on several external services for the site to have these features and in the end, the costs will be higher than running it on Wordpress.

But it could possibly be easier to maintain, be more secure, have higher performance and the dynamic parts wouldn't all fail at the same time so the uptime of the core site could be better.

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by flocial »

return0 wrote: post #4

I think the author assumes that all wordpress sites are simple blogs. Woocommerce alone powers 30% of e-commerce sites.

The author does list shopify in one if the alternatives whatever that means. WordPress is not just a blog but a platform.

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by sparkzilla »

markgavalda wrote: post #5

The most uninformative article I've ever read that was on the home page of HN. It's full of misconceptions and assumptions (that every WP based site can be be replicated with static site generators, that 'WP is inherently insecure' and so on).

Also, if you choose a really great host, you shouldn't have any security issues ;-)

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by dageshi »

onnimonni wrote: post #12

I would like to see a simple but extendable cms which would be mostly static but the non static parts would be handled by aws lambda or gce functions or something similiar.

Seems a lot more complicated than Wordpress for not a lot of gain?

Re: The Next WordPress

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Post by flocial »

markgavalda wrote: post #5

The most uninformative article I've ever read that was on the home page of HN. It's full of misconceptions and assumptions (that every WP based site can be be replicated with static site generators, that 'WP is inherently insecure' and so on).

The article simply doesn't meet the standards of HN and only spreads popular misconceptions.
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