Comment by falcolas | Hacker News Reader

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> Wordpress is an extremely new framework

Unless we're thinking of two very different blogging platforms, Wordpress is pretty much exactly the opposite of "extremely new". Can you please elaborate on why you consider it to be extremely new and unfamiliar to a lot of developers?

> steep complexity curve

Brought on by the basic insecurity of the Wordpress blogging platform. Executable PHP in the Database, as a single example...

> No one has really provided a flexible way to host a platform like wordpress

Sorry? Wordpress hosts have been around for years, again, I'm really not understanding what you're trying to convey here.

> This is going to likely be the first major company using wordpress

You mean, aside from just about everybody; Wired coming to mind as a recent, big example.

I feel like I'm really missing some context here.

EDIT: Satire. Got it. Of course, then there's the question of whether the +1 response by heathwblack is also satire, or... :D

Yeah, I am sorry. I hardly ever make comments like this and it is doubly dubious because I lost my account recently, but this was meant to be satire. When the PM responded, I couldn't help myself but double down.

My account is new so it does look like a straight troll account but I was just having a bit of fun. TBH, as I stated in another comment ITT, wordpress provides a really easy way to test out this concept. I expanded my thoughts on the concept in that comment, but as to wordpress:

I bet reddit is just getting crushed with improvements and the engineering team is overworked. It is really easy and inexpensive to test this concept out without losing developer bandwith. wordpress provides a pretty good CMS (obviously bloated, [standard other wordpress criticsims], etc.) but they can get a tight feedback cycle on this idea and it could successful, but if not, will not be resource intensive.

I generally wish them the best of luck, they need something to work at a monetization level, and I hope this helps as it likely is not the long term solution.

I had a rough first experience with wordpress for a client recently and I just had to vent.

OK. I appreciate the response; I've had my own issues and thus jumped to a totally WTF response. Looking upon it as satire makes much more sense. :)

I'm almost certain the comment you're replying to is satire. I had to read through it twice to be sure though. It's either satire or coming from a parallel universe where everything is upside-down.

Wouldnt this be called Downvoted then?

> Executable PHP in the Database, as a single example...

Do you have a specific example of this? WP itself doesn't use executable PHP in the database, although there are plugins that do (and are hence heavily discouraged).

(You _could_ be referencing storing complex values as serialized data for options/meta, which can technically give you some sorts of executable capabilities: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Object_Injection )

I think on_ is just trying to be whimsical...

I think the parent is being ironic.

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