alt.hn

3/14/2026 at 12:59:10 PM

The Browser Becomes Your WordPress

 https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/announcing-my-wordpress/

by vidyesh

3/14/2026 at 1:38:02 PM

This is a very interesting take.

From the article:

> Because sites on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet, they don’t behave like traditional websites. They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be. Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.

One of the main ideas of the internet, and therefore WordPress, is to be able to share stuff on the public internet.

Without that capability, I wonder who would this be targeted towards. For personal note taking there are numerous software already out there.

by thunderbong

3/14/2026 at 2:26:46 PM

Imagine opting to use Wordpress over a local or desktop app/tool. In theory this is kind of a cool idea, but the bloat of Wordpress is insanely not worth using over.. a .html file.

by soared

3/14/2026 at 6:24:15 PM

If collaborative blogging wasn't dying, this would be a cool way to write contributor articles and then share them with an editor. Though I don't know how you would pull out single articles instead of a whole backup.

by mhitza

3/14/2026 at 1:59:53 PM

Used to love wordpress. These days, I prefer to just use claude code to generate a mostly static website that I can host on a cloudflare cdn for free. Extremely fast, extremely cheap and reliable.

by daft_pink

3/15/2026 at 11:42:35 AM

Also two completely different things

by pluc

3/14/2026 at 1:21:08 PM

Anyone's got the latest on Mullenweg's tantrum before I decide if I care?

This [1] used to be the place but it got less maintained as time went on.

[1] https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...

by pluc

3/14/2026 at 2:00:00 PM

Maybe a celebrity gossip website would suit your interests better than HN?

by blell

3/14/2026 at 7:46:38 PM

Yeah I think millionaires should be able to do their shady business in private too, propagating this knowledge is nearly defamation, definitely gossip. Remembering these things and acting with your wallet based on your values and principles goes against everything capitalism stands for.

by pluc

3/14/2026 at 4:47:22 PM

This is highly impressive from a technical standpoint. All back end tech you used to need in a server for now lives in your browser.

I see this as an example of being able to build complex apps in a browser, which are much more portable than system apps.

by makeitrain

3/14/2026 at 7:52:10 PM

Unrelated: I know they're all anal about the capitalization in WordPress, but "my.WordPress.net" looks ridiculous.

by pluc

3/14/2026 at 2:12:33 PM

Aren't all these use cases just better as markdown files? I don't get it.

by sublinear

3/14/2026 at 1:59:43 PM

Am I the only one who's not getting the point of this?

by handzhiev

3/14/2026 at 10:46:38 PM

nope

by librasteve

3/14/2026 at 1:20:30 PM

The AI slop writing is borderline unreadable.

by apothegm

3/14/2026 at 6:12:26 PM

I read 3 'It's not X it's Y' sentences in a span of just 4 sentences total. Unfortunate that this is how they choose to present this product because I think the idea is good, but it seems that it's not interesting enough to WP to justify actually writing about it themselves.

by samtheDamned