linktree is a very lightweight alternative that i see a lot of people use
WordPress’ market share is shrinking
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#12We can make assumptions all day but for me, the worst thing about WordPress is EASILY Plugin Hell.
I can update all plugins this morning and they all want updates by the end of the day.
And then when they break it’s a disaster.
WordPress itself needs to take a chill pill too.
Leave a version out for a year or more, and only small security patches. In the last year, I think we’ve seen block widgets, JQuery migrate nightmares, that new blocks theme thing, and more. I just want them to back off already.
It’s a nightmare keeping hundreds of clients up to date.
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#13Chances I will ever use Squarespace or Wix: 0%.
Well I guess chances I will ever use Squarespace, Wix or Wordpress: ~0%.
But I'm not sure what that adds to the conversation without some background context on our requirements, use-cases or constraints?
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#14linktree is a very lightweight alternative that i see a lot of people use
https://linktr.ee ?
That seems an entirely different thing, unless there's something I'm missing.
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#15Chances I will ever use Squarespace or Wix: 0%.
The HN community is a bubble. I doubt very many people who participate here would either.
But many creative types I know have used at least one if not both. We are not the intended market.
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#16From the blog post:
> If WordPress is shrinking, something else must be growing, this is, after all, a zero sum game. The very clear winners at the moment are Wix and Squarespace.
I disagree with the authors findings: When taking a look at the quaterly data https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma..., one can clearly see that WP and Shopify at least plateaued which is alright.
But the authors conclusion, that WP's loss gives points to Wix and SqSpace for me does not hold: The numbers for "None" still decreases and much more strongly than the two mentioned above.
He conveniently forgets the "None" partition, making is entire argument/criticism (for me) somewhat thin. He could in the same way argue, that Wix and Squarespace are more successful in getting non-CMS websites to switch.
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#17I'm interested to hear from other people who are bearish on Wordpress' future. Where are you headed? We agree with many of the points the author raised, as well as some additional pain points regarding general maintenance and design decisions (too many ways to do the same thing). Decoupled, static content generators seem to be the direction the industry is heading, but so far we've had trouble finding a content model creation, organization and editing experience that is as mature, reliable and affordable as WordPress.
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#18WordPress will continue losing market share for the simplest reason: people fed up with the coercion of Full-Site Editing (FSE) by Automattic. Community's reaction via comments' section [1] for Gutenberg plugin was a clear indication that people will eventually go away, had they not revoke their decision. They haven't which led to the fork [2] of WordPress thus dividing the community, at least for a while. Had they l…
I'm running my own tiny WP server and I hate that block thing. Good to know other people are feeling the same.
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#19When I found out the landing page at a previous job was Wordpress based I was a little miffed, but in practice it wasn’t that bad to work with for what I needed.
I wasn’t doing the design work etc… but setting up some forwards and other in the weeds things wasn’t really bad at all.
I wouldn’t want to be the sole maintainer, but it’s really not the worst thing I’ve had to work with.
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#20The only people I know who hate Wordpress are the developers who have had the misfortune of having to manage an instance of Wordpress. All the marketing and content people I have worked with love it.
The matches my experience. They can manage whatever web of crazy they want in Wordpress… if they need something from the dev side we can play with some plugins until it works.
Sometimes the answer is “oh god we can’t do that”… and that seemed to be ok if we had some alternatives