Very cool! I think about subscription overload pretty frequently, and how something like this could line up with the news industry.
I haven’t seen a product in a while, but I feel like libraries offering news access is about as close as there’s been to a successful product in subscription consolidation.
The news industry could 100% do better. They're literally the ONLY industry that offers 90% off to everyone for a whole year...but seems to not see a problem with that. I made a post about it here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sjunwikul_what-this-roman-emp...
Not only that, but subscriptions are going to kill startups.
33% of consumers wont get a new subscription unless they cancel an existing one.
Literally the definition of a zero-sum game as this number is increasing, but the new apps that come into market every single day are defaulting to subscriptions...
I was looking for this comment! Not a doctor, but as I understand it muscle is roughly equivalent to fat as far as your heart’s workload is concerned. I thought I also read that muscle movement helps with blood return.
I feel like everyone runs into this in WP dev eventually, but not everyone is honest with themselves about it. It can get messy, fast — I’ve certainly been there!
I’d be interested to know what sort of work your plugins are doing. I think a lot of that ecosystem is there to fill gaps — ACFish custom field functionality, for example, is core functionality in Drupal, Payload and many others.
Just another example — I love Drupal, but the Paragraphs module was always filling a gap in Drupal that Payload’s simple, but quite powerful ‘blocks’ field type makes easy.
Another thing I didn’t realize I love about it until just now: the hooks system is super clear. It’ a lot of the same stuff you use in WP, Drupal and others, where you can hook into functionality. With WP and Drupal, it wasn’t super obvious which hooks fire when. It can take some immersion to really understand it.
I’m such a Payload Stan. I don’t work there, I swear! I’m looking forward to trying out 3.0 embedded in Sveltekit soon here.
Hi, thanks! Currently I've created a small plugin that replaces the download URL of products with a post meta `use_external_url`, appends the `order_id`, and signs it using HMAC. Then I have a CF worker that reads that, validates the signature and stamps the PDF file with the order number, on the fly, after the user clicks to download the file. (I tried some of available plugins but they sucked).
Also, I'd like to have more flexible bundles (possibly bundles of bundles), a more flexible transaction e-mail that offers upsells right after the user buys something, for instance: the user bought the Foo Vol. 1, right after I want to send an email offering a coupon so that they can get the discounted Vol 1, 2, and 3 with the amount they just paid discounted. (I can do that with Mailpoet or Omnisend if they buy just one product, or can implement multiple discounts and upsells with a little bit of JS running on my Windmill instance + Resend).
I feel like I'm going to re-invent a lot of stuff, and since I'm using Stripe, it shouldn't be so hard to think of a nice Products/Bundles/Downloadables/Gallery DB design and ship something ultra light that I can actually understand vs the million lines that a default WP + Woo install has, plus themes and plugins.
I worry about the criticisms I see about Payload not marketing to marketers and site builders, because as a dev I’m a huge fan and would love to see it thrive.
It’s a fair point, especially given that in so many cases the marketers are the ones procuring the CMS. And people who don’t code at all are a big portion of WP’s market.
My main concern is I’m not sure it’s easy for non-devs to see how much of the PHPish ecosystems are filling gaps in the CMS core. I don’t know how many previous CMSes the Payload folks had used before going about building it, but I’ve built tons of features and templates on most of the big ones, and IMO they did a phenomenal job of boiling it down to exactly what a developer needs to build any feature any customer or employer could ever want.
There’s no need for, say, a heavy SEO plugin. You can just define the fields you want your people to fill out and attach those fields to whatever content types you’d like. Then use those fields in the head when presenting the content out front in whatever frontend you want to use.
On top of that, you have all of the JS ecosystem you can plug right in. Dataviz for custom dashboards, data crunching, video and image processing, all of it. And because you’re not starting with a huge, opinionated plugin/module/contrib, it’s not the clunky and unfun when you need a feature that wasn’t there before. It’s so much easier to build exactly what you need if you’re comfortable with code.
SO much of a serious CMS is just content CRUD, and Payload makes it so simple to define your content types in code, where they objectively should be defined for the sake disaster recovery and reliable builds across all environments.
I recently started a project with C#/.Net8 with Sveltekit using adapter-static, and it’s been pretty great so far.
Different tech, obvs, but similar spirit. I like the idea of starting with my own monolith with a clear path to breaking out the frontend in the future if we need to scale.
I’m a cancer survivor (lymphoma), and one of the things I learned during treatment was that wasting disease is one of the big things that actually kills patients.
My calf atrophied substantially toward the end of treatment — enough that I was a bit worried. Almost three years later and it’s still noticeably smaller than the other. I ate a ton, and gained quite a bit of weight overall (100mg of prednisone * 5 * 6 lmao).
I never tried extended fasting before treatment. There really wasn’t time, but there’s at least one documented case out there of someone curing their lymphoma with fasting.
I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play. They know about those drugs and what they do. When it’s treatment time, they calculate the drug amounts on your body surface area (you weigh in when you get there) and mix them on the spot. I’d trust what they say about those drugs, while on those drugs!
> I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play.
I'm not a doctor either, but it looks like there's been some promising studies regarding combining fasting and chemotherapy:
> Preclinical studies in rodents strongly support the implementation of these dietary interventions and a small number of clinical trials begin to provide encouraging results for cancer patients and cancer survivors.
I haven’t seen a product in a while, but I feel like libraries offering news access is about as close as there’s been to a successful product in subscription consolidation.