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The board needs to oust the CEO.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been using WP for personal projects for something like 15 years.

    Nothing I’ve ever created has been that big, but I generally liked the tools nonetheless.

    But now I think I’m out. I try to adhere to a rule where I don’t support rich weirdos as much as possible, and as such that’s why I use Lemmy to begin with. And don’t buy from Amazon. And don’t use Twitter any more. Etc.

    So my next project now will totally be on new software. And hey, maybe I won’t have to use PHP ever again so this could be a win.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      325·
      2 months ago

      Don’t judge PHP by what you saw in WordPress. Modern PHP is amazing, WordPress had horrible code when it started and they definitely didn’t fix things afterwards. It’s a horrible slow mess of a code. Look at some modern PHP (for example this api of mine ) to compare.

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        558·
        2 months ago

        Thanks for sharing a modern php codebase. It makes me confident that giving it up and switching to Python was the right choice.

        • interurbain1er@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          Ah enjoy your single thread. I’ll be there writing writing kick ass code in rust and wondering about important stuff like… err… who owns that fucking variable…

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
          1220·
          2 months ago

          Imagine going to the slowest and ugliest interpreted language there is and feeling superior about it.

          Like, modern Python is basically what PHP was at its lowest point, PHP 4 (20 years ago).

          • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Mojo is what is keeping me vindicated that python was a good choice. That and it’s worked for every project I’ve ever used it for lol

            But that’s small potatoes in the technologist game

            • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              The best tool is the best tool for the job. My php code was immaculate - import header, write your content, import footer. I wrote it all in a few hours, and I think my university is still using it today. One of my proudest moments was when a team member whose abilities I respected gushed over how easy my code was to work with

              I haven’t used it since.

              I’m led to believe modern PHP has become pretty good. It’s also never been the right tool for the job since then

              Mojo sounds incredible - python is a beautifully consistent language, and I’ve written a shit load of it. I like it a lot. It’s often not the right tool for the job, but mojo promises to turn it into something extraordinary that shores up its weaknesses… It’s just promises so far though, I really hope they pan out

              But always ask yourself - what’s the right tool for the job?

          • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
            83·
            2 months ago

            No, it’s worse. PHP never had shit like virtual environments and a million different incompatible package managers.

            • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Hahahahaha. Are you seriously defending crap like __autoload and package management built on top of that hack?

              • egerlach@lemmy.caEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                I’d argue that the concept of isolated environments is great. Python’s implementation… leaves something to be desired.

                It’s still a bit hacky, even in Python 3. Tools like uv and pdm exist in the gaps to smooth it out.

                That said, it’s something that the core community is actively working on and it’s not something users will face day to day.

                I say this as someone who moved from PHP 3 to Python 2 to Ruby to PHP 6+ to Python 3 as their goto language over the years.

        • kureta@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I tried both. Static site generators are great for me, but when I have collaborators, they need a an admin dashboard or something with a graphical interface for editing the looks and/or content. Ghost is great but lacking features. Just saw Concrete5 in this thread, looks promising.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    I’m gonna start checking out Ghost, at this point. This is ridiculous.

    And if Ghost doesn’t work, then ClassicPress it is.

    • claymore@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Personally I’d love to see the CEO thrown out. Maybe then Tumblr will benefit as well.

      • w3dd1e@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        And PocketCasts. Of all the things in this whole mess that surprised me what what Automaticc owned. I had no idea they owned some of my favorite things.

  • ulkesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    Haven’t used anything related to Wordpress in 15 years. Seems I’ll make that a permanent decision now.

  • ganoo_slash_linux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    903·
    2 months ago

    Based on entries to his personal blog and social media posts, Mullenweg has been on safari in Africa this week. Mullenweg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Cherry on top, lmao. Of course he’s off doing rich white CEO things.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      11·
      2 months ago

      Nope. I have used WordPress on a blog or two, but I didn’t know what WP Engine was until a couple of weeks ago.

      • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Sorry if you took that as a literal accusation, it was meant to be some light-hearted McCarthyism satire cast upon this whole sad state of affairs.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
    1261·
    2 months ago

    “Matt’s war against WP Engine has been polarizing and upsetting for everyone in WordPress, but most of the WP community has been relatively insulated from any real effects. Putting a loyalty test in the form of a checkmark on the WordPress.org login page has brought the conflict directly to every community member and contributor. Matt is not just forcing everyone to take sides, he is actively telling people to consult attorneys to determine whether or not they should check the box,” the anonymous contributor I spoke to told me. “It is also more than just whether or not you agree to a legally dubious statement to log in. A growing number of active, dedicated community members, many who have no connection with WP Engine, have had their WordPress.org accounts completely disabled with no notice or explanation as to why. No one knows who will be banned next or for what… Whatever Matt’s end goal is, his ‘tactics,’ especially this legally and ethically ambiguous checkbox, are causing a lot of confusion and mental anguish to people around the world.”

    This is the sort of behavior that causes irreparable damage to a brand. Psycho.

    • villainy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      66·
      2 months ago

      What a weird thing to do! They can sue each other until the cows come home for all I care but dragging the community into it like this comes off as petty imo. Musky even.

      • d15d@feddit.orgEnglish
        25·
        2 months ago

        i did just that a few minutes ago. closed my account and removed my one Plugin from the repo. if the statistics in wordpress.org are correct it was used by ~20k sites (though that number is hard to believe and seemed way too large for the usw case for a long time). It can still be found in github but will no longer get any updates since I haven’t used wordpress myself for quite some time and with the current shitstorm i don’t see a reason to invest any time in it.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.eeEnglish
    143·
    2 months ago

    Welp I’m done, just started talking to my clients about moving to SquareSpace.

  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    I’d just like to point out that WordPress is GPL, so anyone could do whatever they want with the code, including Auttomatic. If people using the software in a way that, although uncool, is totally something they agreed to, the best bet would be to leave WordPress as-is and spin continued development into a new product with a new license. Would people like it? No. Do people like this, though? Hell no.

      • model_tar_gz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        No, but it’s basically a “I can use it to build my billion-dollar business and keep the profits if I want” license. The only real catch is that if I decide to modify the code and distribute it, I’m required by the license to share those changes with whoever gets the modified version. There’s nothing in the GPL that stops me from being a downstream freeloader, and I can stay on whatever version I like—no one’s forcing me to update to newer ones with terms I don’t agree with. Forking and modifying for my own needs is totally fine, as long as I slap the same GPL on the changes if I hand them out.

  • interurbain1er@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I lived through the time when every other website was a malware farm because of that POS platform.

    I don’t think there is a single other piece of software that inspire me so much hate as wordpress so I’m really rooting for a complete implosion of anything WP related and that Mullenweg end up forced to sell his body for food in Pattaya.