Dot.@feddit.org to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoWordpress and self-hosting.feddit.orgexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down111file-text
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minus-squarelily33@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-229 days agoAs someone who has no knowledge of the ecosystem: Why would people who self-host wordpress care about access to wordpress.org? Isn’t the point of self-hostung to use your own infrastructure?
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·29 days agoThe mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that infrastructure.
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·28 days agoConvenience. Imagine buying a iPhone and not having access to the App Store. Sure there are ways around it. But the average iPhone user would have a melt down.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days ago Imagine buying an iPhone Well that’s your problem right there. Honestly, for Android you could actually use Aurora for most things, or only use stuff from F-Droid.
As someone who has no knowledge of the ecosystem: Why would people who self-host wordpress care about access to wordpress.org? Isn’t the point of self-hostung to use your own infrastructure?
The mechanisms built into Wordpress for auto-updates and plugin updates use that infrastructure.
Convenience.
Imagine buying a iPhone and not having access to the App Store.
Sure there are ways around it. But the average iPhone user would have a melt down.
Well that’s your problem right there.
Honestly, for Android you could actually use Aurora for most things, or only use stuff from F-Droid.