Everyone is seeking a WordPress alternative

Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.

The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      351·
      10 days ago

      I looked at that, and thought “ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company’s biggest competitor”.

      Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it’s actually real?

      And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise”):

      screenshot of wordpress.org login page featuring a "Pineapple is delicious on pizza" checkbox.

      😂

      he's not wrong, though

      screenshot of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) in his car in The Big Lebowski, with meme style caption "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole"

    • bitwise@lemmy.caEnglish
      125·
      10 days ago

      Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?

      Just think, they could’ve spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that’s fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.

      🤡

      Can’t wait for Google to add a required login checkbox that says “I accept that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior”…

      And I’m being downvoted. Cute.

      Keep em coming, kids. Nothing I’ve said is wrong.

        • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Afraid you have to look elsewhere, this is a sweet-salty treat. Use some mild cheese, like Sprintz.

          • haverholm@kbin.earth
            2·
            9 days ago

            I’m genuinely curious, can’t find many banana pizza recipes that aren’t smeared with nutella as well. I assume this is a white pizza base since you mention mascarpone? Then banana topping with a sprinkle of grated hard cheese?

            • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
              3·
              9 days ago

              White pizza base woul maybe work too (up for testing) but i just use less tomato. Cutting banana lengthwise, olives around, blotches of mascarpone, olive oil and mild grated hard cheese and pepper & salt over all.

              But Nutella, wth?

              • haverholm@kbin.earth
                3·
                9 days ago

                Ooh, that is salty! Will give it a try next time the family isn’t around to turn up their noses at my kitchen experiments.

                Yeah, Nutella… I think it was the banana+pizza search query that sent me into crêpe-adjacent dessert territory.