Maaaan, the /wordpress/ in the URL really knocks home how slapdash this whole operation is.
And this wasn't anything but an acknowledgement that they're not qualified to produce the software they're distributing. They still don't even know what they don't know.
What an odd thing to criticize them about. Privacy and security issues aside (which are serious), it seems to be an extremely well engineered product. They’ve handled the absolute explosion in users with nary a glitch, and in my experience it’s the _only_ video conferencing solution that “just works”. It’s obvious that there’s some pretty impressive engineering behind it.
I’m not sure exactly what your critique about Wordpress is. Is it that they’re using Wordpress, like 30% of the other websites in the world? Or is it that they didn’t bother removing it from the URL? Start keeping an eye out for “/wp-content/“ in the path of images or downloads on websites. You’ll be amazed.
Do you really think they're not "qualified" to produce video conferencing software? Does that seem like a reasonable statement? I am genuinely curious if you think a public company with millions of users and fairly reliable quality is not "qualified" to deliver its own product.
I'm genuinely curious if you think that company status, bank balance or number of users translates into software quality.
I posit that Zoom has been right place, right price. Simple as that. The software is demonstrably hot trash. Not just at client endpoints but structurally.
Right place, right price, pretty-much flawlessly working video chats. The latter point is just as important (there's a bunch of free video chat products), and suggests it's not completely trash.
At least they're smart enough to make /wordpress/wp-admin return an nginx 403 (meaning that it only works from specific IP addresses or while logged in from another page). I agree that /blog seems more professional than /wordpress but it really doesn't matter that much.
And this wasn't anything but an acknowledgement that they're not qualified to produce the software they're distributing. They still don't even know what they don't know.