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Mullenweg is in trouble, WordPress is gonna be fine. https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7

• softwaredoug 2y ago
  Without a canonical fork for the community (and crucially plugin authors) to rally around it’ll be a bit like Linux distros without a shared executable format, making life difficult for everyone and making it harder to keep critical mass for any vendor.
  • cm2012 2y ago
    A few folks with a lot of community rep could probably do a lot of good if they to threw support behind a new primary fork.
  • pluc 2y ago
    That's difficult to do, but time will tell. There are already established forks, there are obvious leaders, there are known mechanisms to go around wordpress.org... something at some point will pick up steam and that'll be that. Maybe it will be Mullenweg himself who will continue to dig his own grave, maybe it will be the lawsuit that will be the final nail in his coffin... who knows. But WordPress will be fine. And if it isn't, really, who cares. It's not a particularly well built or unique piece of software. Maybe it's time for something else.
    • softwaredoug 2y ago
      I think it would basically take a tech giant going all-in (ie Amazon) and rallying other companies to get this fork into the Linux foundation or something.
      • pluc 2y ago
        WP Engine could do that, and I'd happily throw my support behind it just to spite Mullenweg. They have the funds, the motive and could leverage the existing community, including picking it's leaders and contributors. I wouldn't be surprised that's what happens once the lawsuit is over.