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Comment by photomatt

1 day ago

It was pretty different in a way that brought millions of people into WordPress, but it has evolved in a way that makes a lot of sense to people, clarifying what WordPress is, what the host is, and what the application layers on top of it are. And the new AI / Telex / Studio stuff is super cool.

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nchmy  1 day ago

Why do you have to pay for using plugins on wp dot com, which are free everywhere else in wordpress, Matt?

  • p3ob7o  1 day ago

    Everywhere else where you have to pay for hosting, you mean?

    On WordPress.com, you can pay for hosting plans, some of which give access to plugins and themes, but you also have free hosting without.

    Elsewhere, you pay for hosting; there's generally no free option. Then you get plugins and themes included with that.

    In the end, to use WordPress with plugins and themes, you pay some amount to the company that hosts it for you.

    Disclaimer: I work for Automattic, but the opinions here are my own.

    • nchmy  8 hours ago

      Please see my response to Matt's sibling comment. If this is truly your own opinion, and you can't see that it is just laughably wrong, then you're definitely working in the right place!

  • photomatt  1 day ago

    Please tell me where you can run arbitrary PHP code in the cloud for free, I'm curious to see how they manage that and what limits they put before they start charging.

    We've invested a ton in products like WordPress Studio, which let you run unlimited local copies of WordPress with however many plugins, themes, etc you want.

    • nchmy  20 hours ago

      I'm talking about how from something like 2005-2017, you couldn't install plugins at all.

      Then from 2017 until apparently the last couple months, you had to upgrade past the Free, Personal and Premium plans to the $25/mo Business plan in order to install plugins.

      Now it looks like its just your free tier can't do it - I suppose that's fine. 20 years of providing a bastardized simulacra of wordpress was long enough!

      All other hosts have always provided full-fledged wordpress with plugin installation with all plans

      But, of course you knew all of that and were just trying to misdirect people, yet again. I now fully expect some half-truth pedantic response about a technicality about dates, plan names, or a niche host who also provides a simulacra.

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