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I have zero interest in running Wordpress but I just wanted to say congrats for releasing something that ticks a lot of “objectively good” boxes otherwise: open source, self hosted by design, and privacy friendly.

Well done, and good luck!

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Hah, I somewhat understand the former and fully agree with the latter. For what it’s worth, I hoped building it for WordPress would allow me to reach the most people who would otherwise be left-out by other self-hosted tools (by a lack of server skills or interest). Anyway, thanks for the kind words!

we've been considering building a wordpress plugin, how was the developer experience?

I’ve been doing it for the last 10 years and have built other analytics tools before (Ana in 2016, then Fathom in 2018) as well, so it was super easy to build for me.

But if you’re new to WordPress, I think the process won’t be that enjoyable. Users are usually on EOL PHP versions and WordPress itself is very different from modern day PHP projects.

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