Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
Man baby and WordPress.com CEO apparently forced this on the open-source community.
I looked at that, and thought “ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company’s biggest competitor”.
Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it’s actually real?
And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise”):
😂
he's not wrong, though
Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?
Just think, they could’ve spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that’s fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.
🤡
Can’t wait for Google to add a required login checkbox that says “I accept that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior”…
And I’m being downvoted. Cute.
Keep em coming, kids. Nothing I’ve said is wrong.
Afraid you have to look elsewhere, this is a sweet-salty treat. Use some mild cheese, like Sprintz.
