Reference entries (28)
- referenceReference: vertical SaaS data portability comparison (ServiceTitan / Jobber / Housecall Pro / Clio / Karbon / Tekmetric)
- referenceServiceTitan: "Open Data Pledge" promises CSV export — but practitioner reports cite $24k-$39k exit contract buyouts (flag for verification)
- referenceReference: what page builders cost a small-business site — 10 categories ranked by long-term impact
- referenceBricks Builder retired $199 unlimited-sites lifetime license in January 2024
- referenceElementor Pro Nov 2023: removed ACF/Pods integration from Essential plan for new customers
- referenceGeneratePress official: "You cannot convert Elementor's code to the code required by the Block Editor"
- referenceDrupal 7 EOL January 5, 2025 — ~291,386 sites still on D7 in Sept 2024; migration is effectively a rebuild
- referenceDivi 5 official release Feb 26, 2026; Divi 4 → 5 is one-way migration; rollback gets harder over time
- referenceCounter-argument: a $200/mo managed platform buys you a larger security team than most agencies have
- referenceOwnership Checklist: what an SMB must be able to walk away with at agency separation
- referenceEU Data Act (Regulation 2023/2854): SaaS switching procedures effective Sept 2025; switching fees abolished by Sept 2027
- referenceACF custom fields don't survive WordPress's native XML export — image IDs + serialized arrays break
- referenceElementor: no built-in "deactivate but retain content" option — open feature request since 2018
- referenceDivi 4 stored content as proprietary [et_pb_*] shortcodes — orphan text on theme deactivation (Divi 5 fixes this)
- referenceAgency-as-Registrant "domain hostage" pattern — practitioner-documented but rarely litigated
- referenceICANN: listed Registrant is the legal owner of a domain — admin/technical contact is NOT ownership
- referenceSquarespace acquired Google Domains for $180M (Sept 7, 2023) — ~10M SMB domains migrated automatically
- referenceShopify checkout.liquid sunset (Aug 2024 → Aug 2025 → June 30 2026) — unmigrated customizations will be DELETED
- referenceSquarespace 7.1: no XML export at all. 7.0 export omits images, products, custom CSS, video, audio, drafts, non-blog pages
- referenceWix officially: "no export is possible" — confirmed in writing as a structural property
- referenceWebflow code export: CMS / accounts / e-commerce / localized content NOT included; forms and search don't work
- referenceBlackRock marks down Automattic shares 67.4% to $27.74 (June 30, 2025) — financial signal of dispute cost
- referenceACF → SCF forced fork (Oct 12, 2024) — first unilateral plugin takeover in 21-year WordPress history
- referenceWP Engine vs Automattic timeline (Sept 2024 → ongoing) — open-source has centralized choke points
- referenceSolid project (Tim Berners-Lee) — data-pod architecture; ODI took stewardship Oct 2024
- referenceDoctorow's prescription: "right of exit" requires interoperability, not just open source
- referenceDoctorow: "enshittification" — the three-phase decay pattern of platforms (Word of the Year 2023 + 2024)
- referenceResearch brief: Owning your stack — why agency-managed platforms cost more than they save (piece 4 of 15)
