25 years ago we chose peace.
— Irish Foreign Ministry (@dfatirl) April 10, 2023
Today we think about what the Good Friday Agreement ended and made possible, and how we can make the next 25 years even brighter.
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Author: SimonD
The best part is, the output is utterly ridiculous, but delivered with a completely 'straight face', in a way that a human author would struggle to maintain.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
Entertaining myself by asking ChatGPT to write reports about sporting contests that could never happen. It's pretty certain that Arsenal 2003 would beat Arsenal 1989 2-1. And it thinks Sunak would KO Starmer in an MMA fight. Its post-fight quotes from Sunak are plausibly cheesy.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
Having paid-for Verified status on accounts, where verification is inferred from having working payment details, is not a terrible idea. Other social platforms do that.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
Taking an existing verification system, and merging it with something totally different, is a terrible idea.
This test of the UK's National Emergency Alerts service will coincide nicely with the start of the second half of two Premier League games. Listen out for a massive collective beep from the stands. pic.twitter.com/83aE3SAl43
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
I'm sure that's some of it, but I don't (personally) get the sense that headless could account for a big % of it.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
There's no obvious platform stepping in to pick up the slack. Wix is up quite a bit, Squarespace too. Some of the smaller players have gained a percentage point or two. Shopify did well during the pandemic but has since tailed off. Drupal's slow slide continues.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
For over a year now, the quoted market share for WordPress has been hovering in a narrow range 43.0 - 43.2%, month to month. You can see the red line on the chart has flattened out.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
But the decline of the None category has continued, at broadly the same rate. pic.twitter.com/c7S3GTwJuZ
For many years, as None tracked downwards, WordPress tracked upwards, more or less in lockstep. You could infer that as websites 'got serious' and took up Content Management, a very large % of them went to WordPress.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
But that link now seems to have been broken.
'None' could mean, as the name suggests, there's no CMS at all. Possible, but unlikely these days.
— Simon Dickson (@simond) April 6, 2023
Really, the label means 'none that we could identify'. So, other possible explanations are: maybe it's something self-built, maybe it's 'headless', maybe it's concealed somehow.