[bottled_poe]

For better or worse, part of the appeal of Wordpress is ease of use for non-developers to update their website. Most small businesses definitely don’t employ a dedicated site admin/developer - if they had to they wouldn’t bother with a website. In fact, it looks like that’s the way things are going - pushing small businesses into walled gardens like FB, Insta, Wix, etc. And I don’t blame them, that’s probably the right decision for most businesses.

[gnz11]

"part of the appeal of Wordpress is ease of use for non-developers to update their website."

Seems like in every HN thread regarding Wordpress this is brought up, but later the thread fills up with horror stories of sites being melted down when non-technical users are left to manage these Wordpress sites. Just my two cents, but that supposed benefit of Wordpress seems more like wishful thinking.

[johnchristopher]

> Seems like in every HN thread regarding Wordpress this is brought up, but later the thread fills up with horror stories of sites being melted down when non-technical users are left to manage these Wordpress sites. Just my two cents, but that supposed benefit of Wordpress seems more like wishful thinking.

Nah, it could also mean we don't hear about all the Wordpress running without problems.

Personally I think it's a HN meme now, like the Signal thread with half the comments about Matrix.

[dazc]

Until some random violation gets the page suspended or removed. Had this happen a couple of times, latest was a result of changing over from Facebook Ad manager to Meta Ad manager (or whatever they call it) which triggered the suspicious activity, give us your Govt ID busllshit.

Sorry Facebook, you can go and... you know what!