Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.
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Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn't it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.
Sad part is that he's likely to get away with this pne since it's not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.
WPE is already in legal battle with him, isn't it?
This will not kill Wordpress outright but it might very well significantly factor into the decision of every future person deciding if they should write a plugin to support Wordpress or some alternative CMS or if they should host a Wordpress instance or something else, especially companies offering commercial hosting.
It might even lead to a project or two that will eventually replace Wordpress in its dominant position.
I feel like a lot of people using WordPress solely for blogging can transfer to Jekyll or Hugo, and lose nothing. There's a setup process involved, but you can't get hacked with static pages.
For the rest there's always the far more top-heavy Drupal.
Classic Press is a fork of WordPress that leaves out Gutenberg and has all the legacy PHP < 7.4 stuff stripped out. It's nice.
https://www.classicpress.net/Huh, this actually looks very promising.
It's not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.
I program a lot with both wp and laravel over the last years. Not sure what I want to say other than they are cool but different vibes and skills.
Wp can be used out in the box by almost anyone who is web savvy; laravel is always needing some assembly, at the least, so the entry there is programming or deep pockets to pay that.
Wp community and sites is probably a thousand times larger than laravel?