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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

๐Ÿ˜‚

he's not wrong, thoughscreenshot 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"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป I love my Pizza Hawaii ๐Ÿฅฐ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Canada's best invention since the telephone