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Matt himself suggested the exodus: fork Wordpress, call it something else, host the plugin directory yourself. And it's not like Wordpress is known for it's ph

Matt himself suggested the exodus: fork Wordpress, call it something else, host the plugin directory yourself. And it's not like Wordpress is known for it's phenomenal code quality or anything. This is your chance to ditch some of the bad ideas (cough Gutenberg cough) or legacy code.

righthand 2y ago
Yeah so WP Engine will just proxy the Wordpress plugin search results and cache the top plugins on their end. That’s a lose in this case for Automattic if that’s his suggestion then why even block WP Engine customers in the first place?
- legitster 2y ago
  https://thenewstack.io/the-wordpress-saga-does-matt-mullenwegg-wants-a-fork-or-not/ https://thenewstack.io/the-wordpress-saga-does-matt-mullenwe... > “I think a fork would be amazing,” he told TNS. “They should fork WordPress, because what they offer is not actually WordPress. They call it WordPress, but they really screw it up.” Yeah, part of the confusion here is Matt's unreliability as a narrator of his motivations. He wants WP Engine to fork, but then he asks them to pay. He wants Wordpress to grow and be open source, but suddenly he champions branding and restricting trademarks. It's hard to know what his stated end goal in all of this is - maybe he's okay shrinking the Wordpress community so long as they control a bigger slice of it?
  - righthand 2y ago
    And WP Engine could fork and call it Wordpresss. That’s also a lose for his tirade. I bet his expensive lawyer wouldn’t tell him that though. All I’m learning is that never elect Matt as POTUS because he always wants to go nuclear to teach a lesson to a small percentage of the population.
ValentineC 2y ago
> This is your chance to ditch some of the bad ideas (cough Gutenberg cough) or legacy code. ClassicPress is already a thing: https://www.classicpress.net https://www.classicpress.net

righthand 2y ago

Yeah so WP Engine will just proxy the Wordpress plugin search results and cache the top plugins on their end. That’s a lose in this case for Automattic if that’s his suggestion then why even block WP Engine customers in the first place?

legitster 2y ago
https://thenewstack.io/the-wordpress-saga-does-matt-mullenwegg-wants-a-fork-or-not/ https://thenewstack.io/the-wordpress-saga-does-matt-mullenwe... > “I think a fork would be amazing,” he told TNS. “They should fork WordPress, because what they offer is not actually WordPress. They call it WordPress, but they really screw it up.” Yeah, part of the confusion here is Matt's unreliability as a narrator of his motivations. He wants WP Engine to fork, but then he asks them to pay. He wants Wordpress to grow and be open source, but suddenly he champions branding and restricting trademarks. It's hard to know what his stated end goal in all of this is - maybe he's okay shrinking the Wordpress community so long as they control a bigger slice of it?
- righthand 2y ago
  And WP Engine could fork and call it Wordpresss. That’s also a lose for his tirade. I bet his expensive lawyer wouldn’t tell him that though. All I’m learning is that never elect Matt as POTUS because he always wants to go nuclear to teach a lesson to a small percentage of the population.

ValentineC 2y ago

> This is your chance to ditch some of the bad ideas (cough Gutenberg cough) or legacy code. ClassicPress is already a thing: https://www.classicpress.net https://www.classicpress.net