That kind of implies wordpress will last 100 years... Which is unlikely.
Edit: I suppose the parent meant WordPress.com, the commercial organization that's making this offer, not the open source software itself.
It’s about using the latest cutting edge technology to build the best possible web application for uses.
“Best” as in; Perfect SEO, Simple theming, Fastest loading possible, Secure, Simple and affordable hosting, and so on.
WordPress is very dated, and they are very comfortable in their niche. The reason they maintain the market share that they do is because there just isn’t a better option for users currently.
But to address your static comment; It in my opinion that most most blog sites store static text that never changes in a database, and a backend server has to query for data and return it to the frontend.
This workflow seems a bit overly complex when I could just store the text in a document, and eliminate the need for a backend server or database.
The internet as we know it was created so that CERN could share static text documents with others. Why don’t we bring the web back to that?
You know that WordPress is actually fast, right? A vanilla install on a crappy $2 a month server will return a response in a few ms.
The problem with WordPress are the plugins and the lack of vetting/rules/oversight. And when they do apply their rules, they apply them in ridiculous ways -- for example, I submitted a plugin that was a wrapper around an open source project, with the project's permission, and was denied because I wasn't the author of the project and the author of the project had no desire to interact with shenanigans like that.
These plugins can do virtually anything and do really "bad" (as in performance and security) things.
If you are doing everything in-house and at least reading/contributing to the plugin code before accepting an external plugin, you can host very performant websites.
I'd even venture to suspect that all these plugins is an indication that people want more functionality than can ever be achieved in a competitor ... but to be clear, there are some pretty solid competitors. These competitors are entirely closed-source, so, choose your poison I guess.
> Why don’t we bring the web back to that?
I know people who host an entire school (very niche skill) online. Their entire thing is built on WordPress. I know of quite a few sites actually running their entire user-facing stack on WordPress (usually with a backend API running Go/C# or something). I even know of some very popular money-management apps where the entire app is just running in WordPress.
The internet isn't just static pages, that ship sailed 3+ decades ago.
The MVP also is cheaper to host compared to the hosting solution you suggested.
https://www.elegantframework.com/blog/2023-04-05-elegant-fra...
Reach out to me via email, I used to work at Automattic/WordPress.com and I'd love to hear more about what you're working on.
Do you know of an option that is more likely to succeed, for the money?