This is obviously more a risk in the US than in Europe.

Oh look, it's another one of those.

I have no issues using a QWERTY keyboard, but I'll always prefer a (Belgian, not French) AZERTY keyboard to anything else. Even when coding.

Nothing is ever going to get my brain to reprogram 45 years of muscle memory.

What is the purpose of the moving banners?

That's for design purposes only . If you know chess , those are popular openings for white and black (designed to replicate the stockmarket) . The arrows indicate the popularity increase / decrease . The games will take place on chess.com or lichess

I really expected to be able to click on the text in the moving banners.

They are very distracting. Are they only in the main page or also during the matches?

What are recs? What is AnyRecs?

"AnyRecs Logo / Sign in with Google / made with love in France" is not what I call very informative. I will not sign in to something I have this little information about.

Yeah.

It also hijacks the back button, so you can’t just go back. Have to long click.

I used to appreciate her. Until I realised she just always takes the contrarian view and expresses it in a needlessly undiplomatic and cynical way.

If her contrarian view is correct, why shouldn't she be cynical since no one else seems to care. If her contrarian view is incorrect, then sure don't listen to her.

There's not a chance in hell I'm trusting image hosting to a company that could go under in a couple of weeks or months.

It's not a pathetic reason. I'm 100% on Mullenweg's side here. The DNA of WordPress is to keep revisions of everything.

You may not care about the history of your website, many people do.

I guess access to plugins is way more WP DNA than post revisions, and yet Matt's own WordPress.com restricts access to plugins to more expensive tiers only. (Not to mention the “confusion” he mentions regarding WP Engine, which is explicit with WordPress/WordPress.com.)

It also costs very little in DB for the vast majority of users, so it’s a classic case of Private Equity squeezing money from their product.

Some UX feedback:

- I click the link and see an image and a slogan. I can't click on anything and it's not immediately clear I need to scroll down to enter data.

- The date picker is not intuitive. Take a look at other sites that allow you to choose a start and end date: you allow start and end dates in the past, an end date before a start date, etc.

- I'm on your website to find out where I can go but I can't proceed without telling you where I cant to go. Perhaps ask me where I am now? Or give some general options?

- Once I get a result (I searched for Belgium from April 2024 to January 2024) I can't go back to the form. It's not a good idea to disable the back button.

Well, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Israel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_United_States_for... etc.

Does the existence of these Wikipedia articles now mean that I can call any information put out by Israel or the United States "biased content" and just disregard it?

No. The comment you're replying to explicitly calls out the poor methodology this report is based on and the lack of subject matter expertise shown by the authors. The Wikipedia article is supplementary information that situates this critique within a wider context. They are not saying you should dismiss the report simply because of the Wikipedia article.