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Comment by JJColao | Hacker News Reader

It's not about when the company was founded, it's about the release of Squarespace 6, which compares favorably to WordPress.com's current incarnation.

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Your title is misleading because "Wordpress" as a general brand encompasses the open source Wordpress.org CMS workhorse, which most of us on HN typically associate with the name. Wordpress.com the cloud blog platform has lots of valid competition, notably Tumblr and Blogger.

I enjoy learning the bootstrapped rags to riches story about Squarespace, but your title frames the story as if its about a new competitor to Wordpress the open source CMS, and it is not.

Point taken.

...except on price and on the broad software ecosphere Auttomatic/WP has (which for the self-hosted option pretty much crushes everyone else unless you are doing a full corporate CMS, where Drupal and Joomla might come into play).

It's a nice proprietary option (maybe even and exceptional one) but the article byline is still very linkbait.

I apologize in advance but I get pretty annoyed at the linkbait accusation. It's a strong, somewhat provocative headline yes, but how is it linkbait? Yes, Squarespace is not currently a competitive alternative to the self-hosting option of Wordpress (which I use everyday), but as you admit it's still an exceptional proprietary option for smaller scale websites. These and a million other nuances don't fit in headlines.

"Provacative" = a pretty good euphemism for "linkbait". "Aggressive SEO" is another.

I am unapologetically from a view where that kind of PT Barnum grade nonsense didn't square well with real journalism. I still cringe at it.

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