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God the hubris of the Wordpress camp..

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred.

Wordpress people have been rewriting content without asking for permission FOREVER, potentially breaking code embedded in content. They rewrite (or perhaps stopped by now, I've moved on) Wordpress to WordPress.

Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system, just like the Wikipedia

If I was a hosting service I would have that noise off by default too.

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