Marc Benzakein - My snark is my own

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@tElizaRose So true. It's a little all over the place - especially if you consider where it was in Season 1 vs Season (is it) 12.

@MarcBenzak i feel like getting renewed after the bad seasons is only something they could do. supernatural jumps the shark so many times, it's impressive.

Misha Collins is so underrated as an actor. His range in Supernatural is kind of wild. He plays a normal guy, Castiel, Lucifer, the empty... and they're all incredibly different... am i missing anyone? 😆

@KatieKeithBarn2 I have been putting everything I write into ChatGPT in hopes that it will learn my style. It hasn't yet (although it's gotten better). I use it to stats research and also, if I have hit writer's block, I'll have it get me started. It's also good to bounce ideas off of.

Marketers - what AI tools are you using to plan and implement content changes? For example: - Researching content ideas - Recommending article titles which are are likely to rank and convert - Writing article outlines - Updating existing articles for AI overviews

@adamweeks610 @OpenChannelsFM Definitely was. Let's not let so much time pass in between meals. :-)

@OpenChannelsFM @MarcBenzak A great conversation, and yes, lunch was great!

In this episode, host @adamweeks610 is joined by @MarcBenzak for a thoughtful conversation about the challenges web agencies face in today's digital landscape. They chat about the ever-present client question: "What have you done for me lately?" openchannels.fm/building-trust…

Adam is always fun to speak with. If you have not been on his show, you should give it a go. Great (and sometimes deep) conversations!

I'm so tired of people always looking for something to be mad at. These people can look at a rainbow and find something wrong with it. Try appreciating beauty instead . . . unless you really prefer to be angry all the time.

I'll be going LIVE in 15 minutes to speak with Mart from Patchstack about the @MyMainWP and @patchstackapp integration add-on. Feel free to pop on in! youtube.com/live/qp_TVjfTq…

Maintenance updates for MainWP Dashboard 6.0.4 and MainWP Child 6.0.3. voice.mainwp.com/changelog

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@MarkJSzymanski 21,439 for me, unless you count 2nd hand cannabis.

Random fun fact: I haven't had any alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, or any other such substance in 11,000 days.

@DerekAshauer technically, the customer should have sorted it out. However, I promise you that you've gained a fan for life - and that's priceless.

I just spent an hour trying to debug an issue with Sunshine Photo Cart. Turns out they had an .htaccess security rule targeting Sunshine URLs preventing all POST data. Is this too far for product support or should the customer have sorted this out?

Beyond being self-hosted. Beyond its focus on privacy. Beyond it's simple pricing model. Beyond all that, there is a team that keeps pushing the envelope to make the software better. Our customers know it, too.

@MarkJSzymanski I don't ever want an unhappy customer or a customer who doesn't use us. We are not a SaaS but same rule applies. I will give them 30 days.. sometimes more in unique circumstances. It is not worth the few bucks for the ill will.

Personal belief: If you're a SAAS offering annual plans, you need to: 1. Send an email reminding people of the charge a month prior. 2. Give them a 7-day refund window after they get auto-charged for renewals. Agree or disagree?

Updated to MainWP 6.0 today. 👉 Sites synced. Routine unchanged.

@Kenshino @PatschSchneider @KatieKeithBarn2 Evolution???

@PatschSchneider @MarcBenzak @KatieKeithBarn2 Ouf - we're going back to the years where people build proprietary stuff to replace CMS and inconvenient users are we?

I've heard people say things like "I could easily create AI versions of all your plugins and release them" - but our plugins are open source and have been on nulled/GPL sites for years 🤷‍♀️ An AI-coded version would be far worse than a GPL copy, because it wouldn't have the years of thought, user research, testing, and fine-tuning. Building a successful product is about execution and marketing as much as the code itself.

@PatschSchneider @KatieKeithBarn2 I watched a guy at my cowork with no coding experience create a WordPress style CMS along with dashboard in a few hours. He would have issues maintaining it as a product but for his own purposes it did the trick.

@MarcBenzak @KatieKeithBarn2 It is and I have removed it for my own applications. I simplified it to be php, html, json, css and js. Sometimes even no db, sometimes with SQLite. But customers are used to a CMS and without plugins WP is superfast. You click on something and reacts almost immediately.

@PatschSchneider @KatieKeithBarn2 Curious why you have not replaced WordPress yet. That seems like the next logical step

@KatieKeithBarn2 I have replaced so far: - RankMath - WP Rocket - Table of Content - Kadence - Astra - Spectra - Build a better search - Wp-recipe-maker - leaflet - AI Chatbot - removes jquery from everything - Matomo - image optimisation …

MainWP turns 12. From early versions to MainWP 6, the journey has been shaped by real-world feedback and the people who use it every day. Thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey.