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by earthboundkid 918 days ago
Why would you use Word on purpose?
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Most people who write online aren't doing it in a code editor with a Markdown plugin.

For the overwhelming majority of the 'written web', writers are drafting in Word or Google Docs and sending them in for review.

Why would people use Word?

- 'just works', everyone knows how to use it

- Local-first backups. Good luck trying to extricate your posts from WP's MySQL DB if the site breaks.

- Lots of active bloggers are from the Windows XP era when there weren't 'sexier' options like Google Docs

- Has a powerful version history and accept/reject change features, essential if you have a copy editor or your work has multiple authors.

Still a pretty good word processor if you stick to the pre-stupidity versions, I use 2007 (or whatever the first version was that supported .docx) regularly. I have it sandboxed in a VM container though for obvious reasons.
Because they like it? Because its UX for writing prose is much better than the alternatives?