Glad I decided to not use WP [LWN.net]

Glad I decided to not use WP

Posted Oct 24, 2024 7:18 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Glad I decided to not use WP by rmunn
Parent article: WordPress retaliation impacts community

> The harm might be small ("aw man, they got rid of my favorite scent!")

Well, yeah, but on the other hand there's the harm (and, demonstrably, loss of sales) caused when the customer stands in front of that shelf for minutes and then leaves without a deodorant because there's simply overwhelmingly too much choice here.

Personally I don't want a deodorant with a favorite scent. I want one that makes me stop looking+smelling like a sweaty pig, period end of discussion. Nice scents are a separate concept, to be found three aisles over.
Unfortunately the deos without scent get somewhat buried, if not crowded out outright, by the 23-variety brands.

Yes this analogy extends to web frameworks/backends; my choice there happens to be Flask (or rather Quart-Trio, its sane-async-ized pseudo-fork).

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Glad I decided to not use WP

Posted Oct 24, 2024 13:21 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

And this seems demonstrably borne out by the facts post-Covid.

I know there are supply chain issues which could still be causing problems, but the variety of choice in supermarkets over here has dropped dramatically. My personal example is coffee (which was declining pre-Covid), but since then the range has been cut back sharply - and many supermarket brands disappeared completely for a while. They have come back, but far smaller than before. And tea - I want to buy some Gunpowder, but most of the traditional blends have disappeared. There's a decent choice of fruit teas, but not old-fashioned traditional.

And a lot of brands now seem exclusive to just one or two retailers, where you used to be able to get them everywhere.

Cheers,
Wol

Availability of Tea Varieties

Posted Nov 3, 2024 23:10 UTC (Sun) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

You should come to the giant Tesco here in Coventry - I was looking for some lavender tea, because my daughter requested it, and spent fully twenty minutes trying to find it in about 20ft of shelving devoted to tea.

There were *seven varieties* of Rooibos alone, FFS. No lavender, though...