Squarespace is laying off around 300 employees

They fund a lot of interesting stuff on youtube etc. I'd be sad to see that dry up.

I had similar feelings about the recent wordpress shake ups. They fund some interesting projects. So far I not aware of that affecting funding but changes like that make me nervous.

You never like to see layoffs but this makes sense to me. Even as someone who could code up his own websites (and has many times), I've considered Squarespace in the past for something like a marketing website. But today, I wouldn't even consider spending the money on that unless I was doing ecommerce through my Squarespace site.

Straight informational websites with rare/few edits can much better be handled with LLM-coded websites deployed to something like Cloudflare or just static hosting.

I didn't realise they were owned by private equity.