How to kill your community

http://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/

by zen53 • 17 years ago

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barredo• 17 years ago

The 'bonus' section is a rant against the popularization of systems like IntenseDebate or Disqus.

Is really WP so afraid of these?

mgrouchy• 17 years ago

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with intense debate, considering Automattic(the company behind WordPress owns IntenseDebate). However, disqus would probably be a prime target.

I think the issue is that if the services like Disqus goes away, you don't have the comments anymore either(I believe). With things like IntenseDebate and Backtype you still own the comments, as they are saved in your database with appropriate plugins. Also some talk about appropriate SEO, etc. but I haven't researched that.

aw3c2• 17 years ago

"Design Like NASCAR. The more buttons, widgets, stickers, and visual clutter the better. I want to see every possible login system including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, Google Friend Connect, and that Myspace thing. Because of their respective crappy terms of service, use the giant buttons they insist on. Also include a megabyte of “share this” icons for every obscure service in every language. People love options! Complexity is for closers." - check

Locke16892• 17 years ago

7. Use blog software like WordPress, which will get hacked in a second if anyone cares enough to attack your site.

ryanwaggoner• 17 years ago

What about all the large, successful, serious content and community sites running Wordpress?

And what's the realistic alternative? Many of those sites used to run custom CMS software coded from scratch years ago by some random development agency who farmed the work out to a freelancer who has long since disappeared. Seems doubtful that that's better in any respect.

Edit: Removed my sarcastic tone :)

Locke16892• 17 years ago

I'd honestly say that Drupal is better than Wordpress. Seriously, the extreme number of automated attacks and security holes in wordpress have made it a very dangerous game to play. They do fix problems quickly (a couple of days), but that's still enough time to get hacked.

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