From his perspective, after everything he has done, others are getting the financial gains and many in the community turned on him and his company. It must be a horrible feeling.
WordPress Is in Trouble
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Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#32WordPress is a very mature project with a long legacy but I'm surprised that there hasn't been a larger profile attempt to make a spiritual successor to it that can shake the baggage of being PHP and the long history of vulns that have come along with it.
I'm imagining some very pluggable and template driven runtime that you can ship very declarative packages for. The spicy take would be to use a Scheme for the templating around some robust Rust core, but that's probably not the widest appeal. Maybe there would be some clever way to bootstrap it out of PHP so that you can keep using shared PHP hosts and they wouldn't have to bring along a new software distribution.
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#33I've only been passively following the Wordpress drama. Almost a year ago, Mullenweg blogged about taking a 3 month sabbatical that I found interesting, and I assumed this would have been a period of recharging... but things have seemed to gone off the rails since. Was there any correlational between the sabbatical and current drama, or was that just coincidence?
Did he drink that psychoactive wine?
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#34https://getpublii.com/ Yet, anyone?
Hadn't heard of this but looks like a pretty nice tool. Thanks for sharing :)
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#35Hopefully many sites will switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola. Way lower costs, lower risk of being hacked (almost impossible actually), and a reliable backup thanks to Git. I’m running multiple static sites for years already and am very happy with it. It has been very reliable.
>switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola At that point just write your own HTML and never be beholden to some abstraction framework toolkit corporation cooperative ever again.
I find markdown to be a more productive way to write prose than HTML. It also shouldn't be too hard to port from one generator to another, given that the content is just markdown.
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#36Hopefully many sites will switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola. Way lower costs, lower risk of being hacked (almost impossible actually), and a reliable backup thanks to Git. I’m running multiple static sites for years already and am very happy with it. It has been very reliable.
The principal use of Wordpress IME experience is so people can add content without learning markdown and git and so on
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
>switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola At that point just write your own HTML and never be beholden to some abstraction framework toolkit corporation cooperative ever again.
Soon enough AI will write most of blog/marketing HTML.
And then we can develop systems that save user prompts, automatically and dynamically regenerating page content as the AI models are updated.
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
>switch to a static site generator like Hugo or Zola At that point just write your own HTML and never be beholden to some abstraction framework toolkit corporation cooperative ever again.
I find markdown to be a more productive way to write prose than HTML. It also shouldn't be too hard to port from one generator to another, given that the content is just markdown.
it isn't "just" markdown though. "top matter" and custom html tags and custom htm in-general kinda breaks the appeal.
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#39I'm still in the camp that Matt is attempting to force a fork because he's done with WP. Maybe he believes it can't live without his magic touch (lmao). Either that or he's lost his mind. :)
I'm there with you. He's could be trying to see how far he can go to get people to fork, and finding out there's literally nothing he can do to make his critics fork on their own dime. If it weren't GPL'd, WPE could fork it, close it, and lock it down. Instead, the parasite has to volunteer to be the next host.
Re: WordPress Is in Trouble
#40From his perspective, after everything he has done, others are getting the financial gains and many in the community turned on him and his company. It must be a horrible feeling.
I sort of get what you're trying to do here - an exercise in empathy - but the flip side of this is that he has been made enormously wealthy off the back of thousands and thousands of unpaid volunteer hours on an open source project. It's not only "others" who are getting the financial gains.