Write this up as user error.
No, seriously. We’re talking about the software industry, which never makes any mistakes anywhere, ever. It’s always user error.
Yes, we’re confident about that assertion, or, at least, the fact that it exists. Living in Microsoft country, we have enough friends who work in the software industry to start dropping friends when this issue comes up.
To wit, the image below is a composite of the daily stats report for This Is. In truth, we’re happy to break fifty hits a day, so thank you all for stopping by.
But do you notice the problem?
No, really. Just … look. The only reason you might need to look carefully is that what is missing is much larger than the mistake it might compel you to make.
That is to say, if you’re wondering why WordPress has the United Kingdom so far to the east, it’s because that isn’t the U.K. It is Kaliningrad, Russian Federation.
See? User error.
That WordPress apparently thinks the U.K. doesn’t exist on this planet is immaterial, or else it’s another user error. Because, you know, Automattic is a software company, and software companies never make mistakes.
It’s always user error.
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