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EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Dylan16807 wrote: post #235
halapro wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.

>> It's not illegal to make product comparisons. That's just competition. > Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. Why? That situation had nothing to do with comparisons.

That situation had nothing to do with reality either. It was just some guy being upset at someone and starting a war all of the sudden. War it lost anyway.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Post by halapro »

echelon wrote: post #223
halapro wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.

Matt got upset because they forked his open source project and built a hundred million dollar revenue business on top of it without contributing anything back to WordPress. He'd have more of a leg to stand on if WordPress wasn't itself a fork of an open source project. Matt should have built something open core or fair source licensed - free for customers, but stops competitors from stealing your lunch. He has no leg…

Have you looked at the screenshots? The admin literally looks like WordPress.

You don't have to steal code to become liable. EmDash is an explicit direct competitor to WordPress and it copied the whole interface.

It's like Pepsi suddenly shipping red bottles with the (I can't believe it's not) Coca Cola branding.

If I did this and not CloudFlare, I would have gotten a cease and desist yesterday.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Post by bo0tzz »

OJFord wrote: post #38
bo0tzz wrote: post #3

I've been wanting a CMS on top of Cloudflare workers for a while, so I hope this pays off!

Pages is a thin layer over Workers, and a standard deployment target for most if not all that I've seen.

I specifically want the entire thing to run on workers though; if I'm hosting a separate CMS backend elsewhere, I might as well have that serve the site.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Post by arafeq »

jaredcwhite wrote: post #267

No thanks, I hate it. (To be clear, I'm no fan of WordPress either, and its security hassles are a real issue. But some sloppified MegaCorp vibecoded fever dream will never be a suitable replacement, of that I guarantee.)

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Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Post by timedude »

znpy wrote: post #456
CodeCompost wrote: post #455

The cost of building software has drastically decreased. The arrogance of this statement is staggering.

It is true though. We have a cursor subscription and work and i now see many non-technical people building their own internal tooling. People that had essentially never written a line of code before this new revolution. The cost of building software has really drastically decreased.

So has the quality unfortunately
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