Automattic will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April

Fuck Matt and fuck Automattic

Rather than go back into that abusive relationship, people should take a look at Ghost for their next open source CMS.

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.

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