I spoke to matt and he seemed nice enough to me so for me its weird to see such a radical stance from him on something like this
He sounds like a multi faceted person to me
He's the Elon Musk of PHP.
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#142The title literally made me laugh out loud. What drama! What intrigue! Can't wait to see what happens next. Honestly, I have no horse in the race, so to speak. I think the people responsible for Wordpress code still suck because they still, in 2024, want the software itself to be able to write to where the software itself lives and runs, which is just bananas. It violates the first two rules of anything and everythin…
Yea, Wordpress has always been a nightmare... But it makes things so convenient and that's what most people care about.
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#143So what happens if you are not affiliated when you log in while also clicking the "remember me" option, but later become affiliated? Seems like there's a loophole available for those inclined in being subversive
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#144This whole bit of drama really makes me glad I never invested time/energy in WordPress. It's like Real Housewives of Computer Nerds level of whining, and feels just as fake. Regardless of right/wrong, the whole thing has just turned into a 80s made for TV type of situation. There was a much better way at handling this, but somebody had access to social media and the wheels promptly fell off.
but what's better alternative aside from rolling your own CMS?
I personally think that the best alternative is statamic. I've built two large sites with it without touching a line of PHP. No themes or crazy plugin dependencies in the manner of Wordpress, so its a roll everything yourself type deal, but the data model building GUI is excellent. Not super interested in selling/explaining it, but certainly I would look into it as a viable alternative - it works how I think CMS's should work, incredibly refreshing after building websites for 20 odd years.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> WordPress has recently updated their terms of use to reflect this. That’s… a very odd way of portraying this. The policy, for like a decade, was: “The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.” https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1foknoq/the_word...
Sure, allow me to clarify. Matt voices a number of grievances including WP Engine's changes to WordPress, their use of the term "WP", their donation/sponsorships, and more. At first glance they all seem a bit silly. The important context, in my opinion, is that this comes after the breakdown of a licensing agreement between WP Engine and Automattic, an agreement that would've seen tens of millions of dollars paid to…
But they explicitly say, and have for years, that “WP” can be used by anyone for any purpose.
You can’t turn around and try to enforce that.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, allow me to clarify. Matt voices a number of grievances including WP Engine's changes to WordPress, their use of the term "WP", their donation/sponsorships, and more. At first glance they all seem a bit silly. The important context, in my opinion, is that this comes after the breakdown of a licensing agreement between WP Engine and Automattic, an agreement that would've seen tens of millions of dollars paid to…
But they explicitly say, and have for years, that “WP” can be used by anyone for any purpose. You can’t turn around and try to enforce that.
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#147Ridiculously petty. I genuinely wonder how the fuck Matt and Automattics lawyers are gonna argue him out of this shit, because this is pretty much just giving free arguments to your opposition when it comes to arguing that Automattic is self-dealing.
They've already made their argument: WordPress.org has nothing to do with WordPress, Automattic or the WordPress Foundation. It's owned and operated by Matt privately solely out of the kindness of his heart and his love for open-source.
Who is paying the WP.org hosting bills? Is that coming from Matt? The Foundation? Automatic?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
WordPress 3.7, which introduced automatic updates, received security backports all the way to 3.7.41. From 2013 to 2022. 4.1 and above are all still receiving them.
Doesn't WordPress officially only support the two latest minor version release though ? I can't find an official source at the moment but a quick googling seems to confirm that.
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/supported-versio...
> The only current officially supported version is the last major release of WordPress. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered.
> …
> Security updates will be backported to older releases when possible, but there are no guarantee and no timeframe for older releases. There are no fixed period of support nor Long Term Support (LTS) version such as Ubuntu’s. None of these are safe to use, except the latest series, which is actively maintained.
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#149Turning everything into an ideological battle is so exhausting, why is crap like this still happening.
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