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I mean, nothing. It's clear Matt will do whatever Matt wants, which is fine for him, but bad for the community and the platform. The "Wordpress era" has gone o

I mean, nothing. It's clear Matt will do whatever Matt wants, which is fine for him, but bad for the community and the platform. The "Wordpress era" has gone on a really long time. That longevity makes it easy to forget how quickly these things can change; remember Movable Type was the king of the blogging systems for a good while, until THEY (if I recall correctly) did a gross moneygrab and WP filled the gap. How quickly MT became a footnote should be something Matt keeps in mind.

toyg 2y ago
Movable Type never had the foothold that Wordpress has developed over the years. Once you reach a certain size, inertia alone will allow you to survive for a very long time, even making bad mistakes. Digg died because it was still small enough that a mistake could kill it; Reddit is now so big that the exact same mistakes (or even worse ones) will just not stop it. Same for Twitter or Facebook. Wordpress is way past the size where it will take something more than an isolated legal case to cut it to size.
- ubermonkey 2y ago
  That's definitely true, but MW shouldn't mistake inertia for immortality. WP doesn't really do anything novel. I disagree about Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately; it's been in all the papers.
  - toyg 2y ago
    > Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately I know, but it has taken more than two years to take serious wounds and it's still very far from being dead.
    - dumah 2y ago
      As of 11 months ago, Fidelity had marked down their stake by 71%. As of now, it’s 80%. Are you saying that your threshold for “serious” is more than a 71% loss of value? These losses are squarely in the territory of those who are commonly labeled as “worst ceo’s of all time”.
alberth 2y ago
MT was a huge pain to install, in part due to Perl. Every shared host had PHP/MySQL, which made WP installs dead simple.

toyg 2y ago

Movable Type never had the foothold that Wordpress has developed over the years. Once you reach a certain size, inertia alone will allow you to survive for a very long time, even making bad mistakes. Digg died because it was still small enough that a mistake could kill it; Reddit is now so big that the exact same mistakes (or even worse ones) will just not stop it. Same for Twitter or Facebook. Wordpress is way past the size where it will take something more than an isolated legal case to cut it to size.

ubermonkey 2y ago
That's definitely true, but MW shouldn't mistake inertia for immortality. WP doesn't really do anything novel. I disagree about Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately; it's been in all the papers.
- toyg 2y ago
  > Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately I know, but it has taken more than two years to take serious wounds and it's still very far from being dead.
  - dumah 2y ago
    As of 11 months ago, Fidelity had marked down their stake by 71%. As of now, it’s 80%. Are you saying that your threshold for “serious” is more than a 71% loss of value? These losses are squarely in the territory of those who are commonly labeled as “worst ceo’s of all time”.

alberth 2y ago

MT was a huge pain to install, in part due to Perl. Every shared host had PHP/MySQL, which made WP installs dead simple.