The race to build the next WordPress

runako•about 2 hours ago

Do people really prefer to see vCPU pricing in per-second increments? Is this useful for any person?

Presumably no information is conveyed by the first 4 significant digits. And can anybody compare this pricing to e.g. AWS or Google Cloud? I have never known my compute cost to second resolution, so I'd need to do calculations to even ballpark this.

Suggestion: Don't obfuscate the price, just remove it. Clearly you don't really want casual browsers to know how much you're charging[1]. Which: fine, this is the current trend in tech. So just remove the pricing and put your calendar link there as a CTA instead. Be classy. Don't play games with your audience.

1 - anybody who plugs this into a calculator will a) understand why you don't show monthly pricing and b) think this is screamingly expensive. Which reinforces my recommendation to just replace the price with a CTA and your calendar link.

pipeline_peak•about 2 hours ago

The fact that author automatically jumps to “distributed system cloud goodness” has me glazed over.

We don’t need a new Wordpress that subscribes to today’s current tech trends.

“It doesn’t scale well” what does that even mean?

camillomiller•about 1 hour ago

It means that the author has no idea what they are talking about. Probably never heard of Kinsta, for example. We ran a successful network of about 70 wp installs that had peaks of 8.000 concurrent visitors for hours per day already in 2011/2012. Our sysadmin at the time deployed the whole thing over 2 server clusters behind a wonderful load balancer he fine tuned on OVH. Total monthly costs: 800€.

That was 14 years ago. So imagine thinking that wordpress is “behind” in 2026 just because it doesn’t subscribe to the deranged cloud subscription culture that has infected the industry.

Wordpress has heaps of techical and non technical issues to solve (including especially governance), but being server-side ain’t one of them.

topaz0•about 6 hours ago

The idea that "agent harness" is the thing people actually want is laughable.

rogerthis•about 6 hours ago

It seems it is the buzzword of the month.

rvz•about 6 hours ago

> Written by a human.

This entire post is 100% AI generated.

Just count how many '—' em-dashes you see on the page and it is completely obvious.

iacguy•about 6 hours ago

no it isn't https://www.loom.com/share/a6461081f2bc4cba885eaf5cd233dca3

amanzi•about 5 hours ago

Interestingly, when you're typing in Notion I didn't see any em dashes. Is there some post-processing happening that's converting the hyphens to em dashes? e.g. the following paragraph appeared to have just regular hyphens when you typed on the Loom video:

          <p className="text-[17px] leading-[1.75] tracking-[-0.1px]">
            The difference is subtle but significant. Apache is a web server &mdash; it can host and
            run any web application, for example one written in PHP. Whereas WordPress sits a layer
            above; in fact it typically runs on Apache. What makes it a better analogy for the
            "agentic workload" is what you do with it &mdash; or rather, who and how uses it.
          </p>

jerbearito•about 6 hours ago

This is great. I've considered doing the same thing. After all, I've always used em dashes in my writing, so I suppose all my blog posts are AI-generated as well.

feedtheclank•about 6 hours ago

It's also full of wild inaccuracies. I dunno about AI, but the 'Where we are now' segment is some olympian level leaps.

bdcravens•about 6 hours ago

Is "Written by a human" the new "Created with (heart emoji) in San Francisco" footer?

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