I don’t get the logic of cutting off contributions of any kind unless they were actively sabotaging the projector something. Seems like that just makes the fork basically a guarantee. And in open source, a fork that discourages community is always going to be at a disadvantage.
As if people didn’t Clone Wordpress already, let’s call it BlogPrint
Can someone remove this asshole?
It’s more likely that a fork becomes dominant, making him irrelevant. That’s almost the same thing.
True!
That’s better, because he would have to live his life knowing he completely fucked himself.
Well, other people would know that. He himself would know that it was “those people” that fucked him over, and not he himself.
Do you think he has enough self-awareness?
Hell no. Can’t wait to hear about his new Wordpress cryptocurrency launching soon
Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!
That’s not how open source is sposto work…
100% switching to whatever the fork ends up being.
I think he misunderstands the label/title “benevolent dictator for life” that can get assigned to people on some really popular open source projects.
Honestly, it’s kind of heartening how infrequently they forget the benevolent part.
Humans can’t do then benevolent part for very long.
You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we’re just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.
(Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn’t help, and boy howdy.)
My dislike of Wordpress is being validated every day
Why are you hating on WordPress ?
See the article
But why WordPress itself
Bad impression of their development environment and business practices
Speaks at Disrupt
People try to disrupt his profit
“No you can’t do that”
Who disrupts the disrupters?
Starfleet Intelligence
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remember when matt publically attacked a trans woman on twitter because she called him out about his transphobia
I do not, source?
Not that I don’t believe you, but if we’re gonna hate on this guy even more, we should make sure it’s for facts.
Yeah fuck that guy.
Hopefully he explodes with hammers and hammers go flying everywhere
So does anyone know if the fork has been implemented or not?
Wonder how pissy he’s gonna be when the project is forked and everyone leaves the original.
159 have left since Matt’s cheese slide off his cracker
Sounds like a spoiled child
Trump’s disease is spreading.
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?
affecting
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/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?
Huh, this actually looks very promising.
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