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Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

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hedgehog wrote: post #29
runjake wrote: post #4

Recent similar Ask HNs with discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... I think it'd best to just stay. I see one of two likely things happening: 1. Matt comes to his senses and formally secedes his control of the WordPress Foundation and WordPress OSS to a qualified group of people. 2. He doesn't and the project gets forked to something that gets traction and will be immediately compa…

Forking the code is easy, forking the infrastructure and community not so much. It would be a lot of work and with an apparently capricious founder any splinter project has a high likelihood of getting bogged down in drama. My guess is no code fork gets traction, business continues mostly as usual but the supporting service providers and dev ecosystem start moving to alternatives that have more stable governance. Eve…

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Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

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Post by xnx »

> What's the best alternative to WordPress right now after all the drama?

Probably WordPress. The user-base is so huge that you'll be in good company. There will be an easy migration to whatever the future version is that Matt doesn't have the ability to supply chain attack.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

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Post by snats »

let me vouch for 11ty.dev, i love it. it is simple, easy to use, and slim. you don't have to worry about fighting the million dogs around and if that seems like to much. just go and use raw html, i think that ever since i've been using raw html i've actually been publishing more blogposts

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

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Post by immibis »

hedgehog wrote: post #29
runjake wrote: post #4

Recent similar Ask HNs with discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... I think it'd best to just stay. I see one of two likely things happening: 1. Matt comes to his senses and formally secedes his control of the WordPress Foundation and WordPress OSS to a qualified group of people. 2. He doesn't and the project gets forked to something that gets traction and will be immediately compa…

Forking the code is easy, forking the infrastructure and community not so much. It would be a lot of work and with an apparently capricious founder any splinter project has a high likelihood of getting bogged down in drama. My guess is no code fork gets traction, business continues mostly as usual but the supporting service providers and dev ecosystem start moving to alternatives that have more stable governance. Eve…

Look what happened to freenode: everyone just migrated to exactly the same thing but without the crazy guy or the trademark. WPEngine could fork WordPress, call it WPEngine, they're probably already halfway done scraping the plugin repository.

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

#37

Post by selimthegrim »

runjake wrote: post #4

Recent similar Ask HNs with discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... I think it'd best to just stay. I see one of two likely things happening: 1. Matt comes to his senses and formally secedes his control of the WordPress Foundation and WordPress OSS to a qualified group of people. 2. He doesn't and the project gets forked to something that gets traction and will be immediately compa…

I think just cede is fine here vs. secede

Re: Ask HN: Where After WordPress?

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Post by zdragnar »

snats wrote: post #34

let me vouch for 11ty.dev, i love it. it is simple, easy to use, and slim. you don't have to worry about fighting the million dogs around and if that seems like to much. just go and use raw html, i think that ever since i've been using raw html i've actually been publishing more blogposts

11ty is okay, but it is by no means an alternative for WordPress unless you are a developer, using it only for yourself, and are fine writing a custom backend for literally any basic functionality beyond serving static content.
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