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A WordPress spiritual successor backed by Cloudflare sounds great in theory, but the headline feature, plugin isolation via Dynamic Workers, only works on Cloudflare's runtime. On any other host it's just a TypeScript CMS without the security model that justifies its existence. Open source but architecturally locked in.

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I missed this. So they didn’t really solve much at all. I guess at least it’s compatible with other runtimes. But yeah, who would’ve guessed that Cloudflare software would (besides being vibeslop) prefer Cloudflare infra. This, of course, makes the software quite hard to adopt.

> Open source but architecturally locked in.

You hit the nail on the head.

Cloudflare's new business model is to find popular OSS projects, create a vibe coded alternative that only runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

Sadly, it looks more and more like it. It’s sad, because they were doing wonderful stuff.

Agreed. They are destroying their professional reputation.

I think pretty much every corporation that can have had this thought, has had it. Really "any popular software" where they can provide similar functionality. And I think this is going to happen more often before it becomes less common.

Workerd (the platform for Workers) is open source though? You could run your own? And people do run their own, at least according to Cloudflare.

Open source runtime, not the orchestration layer on top.

Are you saying that by providing a globally available service, they're engaging in vendor lock-in, because otherwise you'd have to build your own globally available and distributed service...? ...yeah?

But if you wanted to run Workerd on EC2 or Google Cloud or whatever, you could...so not really sure how that applies here.

You cannot say you’re the spiritual successor to WordPress, if your software doesn’t support running plugins out of the box on arbitrary installs. WordPress is very easy to host and scale, you only need a basic server and a CDN. A spiritual successor would follow that and also have all the new shiny stuff.

Maybe other runtimes should copy dynamic workers.

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