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I hope Matt can get better but in the meantime, the community needs to fork. In the same way that LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice. Otherwise the blogosphere
by mastazi 2y ago
I hope Matt can get better but in the meantime, the community needs to fork. In the same way that LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice. Otherwise the blogosphere is just going to adopt one of the competing platforms and many of them (at least many of the "user friendly" ones) are not open source.
- navigate8310 2y agohttps://www.classicpress.net https://www.classicpress.net
- yellow_lead 2y agoAs much as the community may want a fork, I suspect it's not going to pick up much momentum unless it's created by a larger company with skin in the game, i.e WPEngine.
- thih9 2y agoWPEngine starting a foundation and successfully forking Wordpress would have been an appropriate plot twist.
- mastazi 2y agoI agree and that is also my fear. That would mean that people will just move to something proprietary like Squarespace or Wix. This type of shift has happened many times before in tech so I consider it likely.
- tasuki 2y agoWordPress is pretty terrible. Perhaps the community can start using something better? Drupal or something. Something slightly less spaghetti... Perhaps this is all for the good of humanity.
- mastazi 2y agoI get where you're coming from but I find it more likely that most people will just move to Squarespace, Wix etc. - away from open source and towards proprietary platforms.