Seth GoldsteinMay 3, 2023

On Edge Of The Web Radio my bud @MordyOberstein said he thinks closed platforms are catching up and are possibly the future.

I can't disagree more. LOL Surprise, surprise.

With a closed system you run the risk of what happened with Twitter. Open system can go around those issues.

Yes they have their own issues, like adoption and confusion. But closed ecosystems are so Web 2.0.

Love ya Mordy, but you ARE wrong!

Show threadMordy ObersteinMay 3, 2023

@seth Call me when you’re plug-ins destroy your SEO growth. But really and kudos to me for being so balanced on the episode - there are different opportunity costs it’s not a better or worse situation.

I’ll give you an example… you have to trust the platform more but at the same time all your clients $ goes to growth not maintenance or there’s less risk the day after you hand a site off of a plug-in trashing things… it’s all opportunity cost

Show threadDanielle Rohe May 3, 2023
@MordyOberstein @seth yup, these tradeoffs were a big decision in deciding between SF commerce cloud (closed) vs. Magento when I was assessing what each had in terms of SEO. If you have some trusted plugin creators that's great (and we did at the time who had migrated to M2) but if they can no longer support it you are SOL. Seen that with a few WP plugins and APIs I've been dependent on. It is why we always set strict versions in imports when I was dev so a library change never broke things
Show threadMordy ObersteinMay 3, 2023
@danielle_r @seth that’s a great point- closed or open there’s no way around trusting the folks behind the tech. Seth, take this very platform aren’t we trusting folks like @simoncox?
Show threadJohn MuellerMay 3, 2023

@MordyOberstein @danielle_r @seth @simoncox Trust nobody! Chisel & deliver your stone tablets personally! It's the only way to be safe.

(I'd insert some fun AI images here, but they're probably inappropriate, oh well :-))

Show threadJohn Mueller

@MordyOberstein @danielle_r @seth @simoncox FWIW I don't think open vs closed has an inherent answer; a neglected platform on either side sucks terribly for people who rely on it. Sometimes you can fix an open platform yourself, most people can't.

Copy & pasting your online content to a new platform is painful, but you won't be the first, nor the last, to do so.

May 3, 2023 at 2:51pmWeb
Show threadSeth GoldsteinMay 3, 2023

@johnmu @MordyOberstein @danielle_r @simoncox

Totally agree