gofsckyourself@lemmy.world
on 30 May 2025 22:55
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Forks have already existed. Like ClassicPress or Bedrock. The biggest hurdle is getting the average user to use it. But that will never happen unless WordPress becomes difficult enough to use that alternatives are easier. People use WordPress because it’s convenient, not because it’s good.
onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 30 May 2025 20:54
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Did they resolve their issue with that other company? I can’t remember what was going on but the owner of automattic was pissed about them not contributing back or something? Did something change?
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world
on 30 May 2025 22:57
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Fuck Matt and fuck Automattic
Kissaki@programming.dev
on 31 May 2025 09:01
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Marketing-speak, not saying much at all. Not even a hint in what they “discovered”, what they plan to change, or plan to do. No acknowledgement of previous issues, making me doubt the “working with the incredible global community” as pure marketing-speak.
podperson@lemm.ee
on 31 May 2025 23:59
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Just like with US politics, I think (hope) this was a wake up call that alternatives are needed and that maybe so much heavy use of one platform controlled by one nutbag CEO isn’t a good thing. It has been a pretty good platform overall (has its warts, but is very flexible, has a huge developer community, and actively developed/maintained), but the drama over the past year has been the nail in the coffin for me. It’s not something I’m ever going to recommend to my superiors or potential clients as a solid, long term solution to content management.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
on 01 Jun 2025 05:55
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Rather than go back into that abusive relationship, people should take a look at Ghost for their next open source CMS.
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Did Wordpress ever fork our have people just been migrating to alternatives?
IIRC automatic controls important pieces of infrastructure that made a fork very difficult, and they also sabotage people who attempted to fork
techcrunch.com/…/matt-mullenweg-deactivates-wordp…
Forks have already existed. Like ClassicPress or Bedrock. The biggest hurdle is getting the average user to use it. But that will never happen unless WordPress becomes difficult enough to use that alternatives are easier. People use WordPress because it’s convenient, not because it’s good.
Did they resolve their issue with that other company? I can’t remember what was going on but the owner of automattic was pissed about them not contributing back or something? Did something change?
Anti Commercial-AI license
WP Engine?
Fuck Matt and fuck Automattic
Marketing-speak, not saying much at all. Not even a hint in what they “discovered”, what they plan to change, or plan to do. No acknowledgement of previous issues, making me doubt the “working with the incredible global community” as pure marketing-speak.
Just like with US politics, I think (hope) this was a wake up call that alternatives are needed and that maybe so much heavy use of one platform controlled by one nutbag CEO isn’t a good thing. It has been a pretty good platform overall (has its warts, but is very flexible, has a huge developer community, and actively developed/maintained), but the drama over the past year has been the nail in the coffin for me. It’s not something I’m ever going to recommend to my superiors or potential clients as a solid, long term solution to content management.
Rather than go back into that abusive relationship, people should take a look at Ghost for their next open source CMS.