100% switching to whatever the fork ends up being.
If anyone wants to see it from the hours mouth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt
That’s him.
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.
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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
My dislike of Wordpress is being validated every day
Can someone remove this asshole?
Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!
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.
Do you think he has enough self-awareness?
Well, other people would know that. He himself would know that it was “those people” that fucked him over, and not he himself.
That’s not how open source is sposto work…
So does anyone know if the fork has been implemented or not?
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.)
Sounds like a spoiled child
Trump’s disease is spreading.
Wonder how pissy he’s gonna be when the project is forked and everyone leaves the original.
I can’t access the link. who is he?
He’s a co-creator of WordPress and (my opinion) a total knob.
With what I have now seen about him, I would be quite inclined to agree.
An asshole
The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:
- Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
- Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
- Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
- Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
- Acted like
an absolute fucking buffoonthe innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.
Speaks at Disrupt
People try to disrupt his profit
“No you can’t do that”
Who disrupts the disrupters?
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.
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.