A WordPress spiritual successor backed by Cloudflare sounds great in theory, but the headline feature, plugin isolation via Dynamic Workers, only works on Cloudflare's runtime. On any other host it's just a TypeScript CMS without the security model that justifies its existence. Open source but architecturally locked in.

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solarkraft 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I missed this. So they didn’t really solve much at all. I guess at least it’s compatible with other runtimes. But yeah, who would’ve guessed that Cloudflare software would (besides being vibeslop) prefer Cloudflare infra. This, of course, makes the software quite hard to adopt.

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arcfour an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Workerd (the platform for Workers) is open source though? You could run your own? And people do run their own, at least according to Cloudflare.

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wmf 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe other runtimes should copy dynamic workers.

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zsoltkacsandi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Open source but architecturally locked in.

You hit the nail on the head.

Cloudflare's new business model is to find popular OSS projects, create a vibe coded alternative that only runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

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frizlab 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sadly, it looks more and more like it. It’s sad, because they were doing wonderful stuff.

	▲	zsoltkacsandi 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. They are destroying their professional reputation.

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QuantumGood 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think pretty much every corporation that can have had this thought, has had it. Really "any popular software" where they can provide similar functionality. And I think this is going to happen more often before it becomes less common.

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gbibas an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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