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I'm happy to pitch in and help migrate those university sites, we can get them on a WordPress stack that's much more stable and forward-compatible.

I hope we can make the .org Theme directory so good and Gutenberg + Patterns so usable you don't need to go to Themeforest anymore.

We do need to figure out as a community how to deal with that upsell / aggressive plugin problem. I hope we can come up with some norms and standards for what's allowed in our plugin directory that is most customer-centric.

Domains are my vice. Also have w.org. Ma.tt. I would rather have a cool IP address (like Cloudflare's) or domain than a fancy car or boat.

Just come to WP.com and we'll run it super-fast, auto-updated, and secure for $25/mo.

I'm not sure what version we're on, this would probably be 4.0.

I think Twitter's lack of safety and moderation of adult and illegal content is one of the next shoes to drop in the amazing reality show of the Twitter takeover. There is so much hardcore content on Twitter I have no idea how they get away with it. It's an area though where no service that accepts user-generated content is perfect, it's just how fast and well you respond when something goes wrong.

We now have Woo.com!

I actually agree, "easy to use" is not the right framing. The core stuff needs to work really well, be friction-free. New features don't matter if the app crashes, or if you get spam. It's hard to run a social network, and do it in a public and open source way, but we're trying both.

That sounds like a bug I'd like to fix, happy to communicate directly on it.

We'll try to get better about support, bugginess, and account switching should be a lot nicer so you can actually use Tumblr as different personas when you want to.

Good news! Since November 2022 we rolled back a lot of the restrictions Verizon had put in place, to now allow for artistic representations of the human form and many things people would consider NSFW:

https://www.tumblr.com/staff/699744158019190784/this-is-not-...

The adult content guidelines have been normalized on Tumblr since November 2022, but if you want to know why it's not free for all porn anymore check out this post: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...

I hope it's going to be a case study in how to turn things around, much like Reddit did after they were acquired by Condé Nast/Wired in 2006.

All we can do is make the tools work really well, and then people can choose how they want to use them or not.

Some very neat suggestions here, thank you to the OP and everyone who has commented so far. :) We're far from perfect, but we're about to celebrate 19 years of steady iteration, and I hope to continue iterating to bring you great open source software as long as I'm physically and mentally able. — Co-founder of WordPress

You can do this! Support article here: https://wordpress.org/support/article/giving-wordpress-its-o...

RCEs are rare enough now that the price has grown to 300k for a zero day: https://wptavern.com/zerodium-temporarily-triples-payout-to-...

This is why we built Gutenberg, which is the new editor in WP that allows you to do rich layouts without using Divi or Bakery. Gutenberg is what the new White House site uses! You can do really advanced things with it.

Thank you for sharing. :)

This is the plugin we use to run WP databases across many servers and geographic locations: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hyperdb/

We run WordPress multi-site on WP.com to power several hundred million user accounts. So whenever you visit a domain hosted by us, you're hitting 99% core WordPress, plus some custom plugins and code we run to make it multi-datacenter and super-secure.

Calypso is our JS dashboard that lets you manage all your sites in one place, plus get cool WP.com features like stats and notifications. It's just a REST API client, just like the iOS and Android apps.

Happy to host your relative's site on WP.com, here's a 50% off coupon for HN peeps that will work the next 48 hours: HNEWSJANMATT . Please tweet me if you want any extra help from our team on the migration. I hope your relative is very happy.

Awesome example, thank you for sharing!

I wouldn't suggest it personally, and don't think it's common.

What's funny is that this error would have been impossible to make within WP's built-in file editor. It lint checks before letting you save any edits.

Gutenberg is a really robust and active project[1] in its own right, separate from WordPress, and I hope that it becomes a cross-CMS standard.

If you've worked on any sort of editor, block system, page builder, etc Automattic are hiring very aggressively for senior JS positions. [2] It's a fun and fast-moving project to work on, with a huge impact. Many others are hiring for Gutenberg skills as well, so it's a high-demand competency.

[1] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg [2] https://automattic.com/work-with-us/javascript-engineer/

What tutorials did you find helpful?

You make a good point that some folks using "classic" are really using one of the page builder plugins that are incompatible with Gutenberg.

My long-term view there is that "proprietary," as in specific to a single plugin, data structures and UI are going to be less and less appealing to users over time as the standard rails of blocks and the applications being written on top of Gutenberg blocks, including the mobile apps, become more of a must-have for many sites.

The future of page builder plugins is extending Gutenberg, not trying to recreate what it does well with fewer developers and a much smaller community.

This switchover has already happened for a good chunk of the user base, over half, and the remainder will have an opportunity to switch on the cadence that they redesign their site, which is usually every few years.

That is correct!

We made that plugin ourselves and support it officially, it allows per-post choice to use the Classic or Gutenberg editor on a per-post basis... it doesn't mean that people aren't using Gutenberg. The numbers got driven up when a number of web hosts pre-installed it when auto-upgrading their users to 5.0, and continue to bundle it with new installs.

We're now seeing over 235k posts a day made using the Gutenberg editor. The iOS and Android versions support the majority of the blocks now, and are being re-licensed using the MPL so they can be easily embedded and used by other apps. There's a public release of the Gutenberg plugin every other week and we're relentlessly working on making it faster, easier to use, and more flexible. People are creating things they could never have done using the Classic editor, and that's really exciting.

And of course the beautiful thing about open source is you can customize it and use whatever editor you want, as someone else mentioned, and given WP's very open APIs you don't even need to ever touch any of our editors, you can post using wp-cli, Git, Emacs, third-party desktop clients, sending an email...