my.WordPress.what?!  In the latest installment of what the is going on with WordPress, I have my.wordpress.net on the left, playground.wordpress.net on the right, and I just don't get it. If anything, do me the justice of listening to me rant for a little bit. I'm going to make this as short as humanly possible because it is a rant and I don't think that's uh ultimately fair. Uh because I love Playground. In fact, it is one of the things I recommend most in almost all of my videos is to go to playground.wordpress WordPress.net. So, anything that you hopefully take away from this video, it is me recommending Playground and you get to see a little bit of Playground and what's happening behind the scenes because I think it's one of the most exciting things to come from WordPress with the most opportunities. And then it's like my.wordpress.net. It's the same thing in my opinion. Let's uh take a look at Rafal Tamal, friend of the show. He also says this is why other platforms make fun of WordPress. and he's sort of hinting at this landing page that we're looking at here in my.wordpress.net. And on the right hand side, at least we have something with more teeth. Uh, hello from the playground. It explains on what it can do. You've got a video you can watch. You can explore the blueprints gallery, frequently asked questions, how to get this running via MPX locally. like it feels more meaty where this is just like I mean I why would I present this as like a new thing for WordPress. This is the frustrating part. WordPress struggles with marketing. It struggles with perception and I think Rafal is nailing it right on the head. Of course he's one of the leading designers for WordPress saying like we got to put our best foot forward with these types of things. I had no issue and I don't even think I mean I haven't talked to Rufall I don't think anyone has issues with where playground was going I think everyone's excited for playground and you look at it as a developer tool not like the enduser tool and my argument is if you're going to put out something for end users for that average person to interact with is going to be a little bit more than what we see with my.wordpress.net Now, let's read the uh announcement from Brandon Payeyton. And again, uh he contributes 40 hours a week to Playground. I love Playground. I just want to make sure everyone understands that. I just don't get this. Your browser becomes your WordPress. I thought that's what Playground already did. New ways to WordPress. I'm just going to skip ahead here. Uh when you open up my.wordpress.net, you're placed directly into a complete WordPress environment that runs entirely in your browser. Again, that's what we're doing with Playground. What makes this approach meaningful is not just where WordPress runs, but how it changes the relationship between people and the software itself. By removing the need to sign up or make early decisions about hosting visibility, my.wordpress.net reframes WordPress as a space you can enter and work within rather than a service you have to configure before you begin. Absolutely. This is why I love Playground because I can just go to Playground, spin up a WordPress site, uh, and not only spin up a WordPress site, which we'll look at in a minute, I can do all kinds of other things that my WordPress.net net doesn't do. So, I think maybe we're just releasing something that we haven't fully seen baked yet. So, I'll give them that. But I don't know if WordPress, the perception of WordPress in the marketing of WordPress in today's environment can stand a half-ass launch, pardon my French, permanently and privately yours, yes, but it's in the browser. So, I believe you delete local storage, you end up, you know, losing that uh WordPress site, which we'll look at in a moment on how you can kind of back that up or what tooling they've put in to back that up. Sparking creativity with apps. Let me repeat that. Sparking creativity with apps. Sparking creativity with apps. What about plugins? What about blueprints? What about all the nomenclature we've had for 20 years? And I'm not saying that we should keep things for 20 years, but suddenly we're thrusting apps upon us. That's the headscratcher for me because we've been calling it blueprints. You know, I think many other like hosting providers and other plug-in solutions have called things blueprints before and and I don't know if this is a way to start making inroads with your average WordPress user. I don't know if my.wordpress.net net is going to tie into an account system in the future which would either I don't want to say back channel but would connect to WordPress.com as a hosting provider or with WordPress.org or and then you can ship it off to some other hosting provider, whatever. Like I'm not here to theorize that stuff right now. But the whole like apps thing, why are we getting away from plugins? Why are we getting away from blueprints? We showcase a personal uh CRM, which again, this is the tugof-war that I have with like wanting automatic to win and then also I don't understand what's happening half the time at WordPress.org. Personal CRM. I mean there's a million CRM solutions obviously but um well WordPress has automatic owned something called Clay which is what I would call like an I've done the video in the channel before you can check it out I would say like an AIcentric CRM if you will fantastic I think it's a great product I hope to see more of it why aren't we like showing some kind of solution for automatic here or dare I say jetack CRM here it's just it's always like so random and disjointed it it's mindboggling personal RSS reader. Okay, cool. I AI workspace and knowledge base again like it says because my.wordpress.net is powered by WordPress playground an AI assistant can safely modify empowering you to customize beyond what you need to ask it to. I actually tested this in with cloud code locally on my terminal and I asked if it could see the differences between my.wordpress.net net and playground just generally just not having it like run a Python script or anything like that to see if it could understand like what the differences is. It basically said they were the same. I I there's nothing that it sees different. And I asked could you modify my.wordpress.net in the browser and it said no. It would need authentication and all this other stuff. So maybe we're moving in that direction where you're asking your local or your native LM chatbot of choice to say, "Hey, connect to my.wordpress. WordPress which is locally on my computer and it can do things. Okay, cool. But why don't you do that for your own like live site? I mean, of course, if you don't want it to be logged in, that's a different discussion. So, let's just take a look at the the two side by side. And real quick, there's like missing components here which don't make a whole heck of a lot of sense to me. So, if I open up the sidebar, I can see the code of the my.wordpress.net. I can get the see the files, download the database, see the logs. Uh this is very similar to what you can do inside of inside of the playground, but playground is going to give you a lot more obviously developer features to advance the version of WordPress, advance PHP, you can run blueprint JSON files right from here. If I go to the four squares, if I go to the four squares in my wordpress.net, you see install apps on the right hand side in the playground I have blueprints and I have 42 blueprints in fact so if you've never seen this before there's a bunch of stuff inside of playground where you can load these themes and these pre pre-built sites the WordPress is using apps which I don't know why we're making that departure and then there's more playgrounds to go to so this is where like I'm at a standstill and why are we making this when we have that? I can do a vanilla WordPress install. I can do a WordPress pull request. I if I see something that's being developed in GitHub on WordPress or in Gutenberg, I can actually load that into playground. So, I can test that feature right here. Fantastic. I can load a blueprint URL. I can import a zip. And like I said, I can go through and pick from these from these blueprints. The install apps again. If I go to AI assistant, it's going to load theoretically loading plugins or a plugin in the background which gives me this AI assistant and I can work with it here. So, I just don't understand why we make the splash or the post for something like this when we already have playground. I don't know. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure it out. You let me know what you think in the comments below. I love Playground. I love Playground. I love Playground. And I will repeat that and I will sing the praises of the team. But sweet Jesus, somebody tell me why we need my.wordpress.net. Net., my.WordPress.what?!, YouTube, 01kkh5z0mjpj6mgnc4s9gqpdcv.