- bitofhope ( @bitofhope@awful.systems ) English17•13 hours ago
So the guy running WordPress.com (business model: Uber for LAMP stack, not to be confused with WordPress.org, winner of Drupal’s Drag Race) is angry that WP Engine (business model: Lyft for LAMP stack, not to be confused with MediaWiki, the engine of WP) offers hosting for the same GPL licensed CMS as they do, am I understanding this correctly?
- e8d79 ( @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•4 hours ago
I recognize this style. Shame they stopped posting their weekly hackernews sneer.
- bitofhope ( @bitofhope@awful.systems ) English15•13 hours ago
Also, I just now realized that Automattic (business model: Uber for not posting female-presenting nipples) is a pun on this guy’s name.
- flere-imsaho ( @mawhrin@awful.systems ) English6•12 hours ago
and perhaps a little bow to lem’s “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew’s friend)
- gerikson ( @gerikson@awful.systems ) English5•9 hours ago
I really really doubt it. It’s a pun on his name.
- Donut ( @Donut@leminal.space ) English5•14 hours ago
As someone who is running a simple WordPress portfolio / brochure style site, what are some alternatives?
- sue_me_please ( @sue_me_please@awful.systems ) English2•4 hours ago
Depends on what you’re doing with it. You could get away with a SSG for some use cases, but Wordpress with plugins can get pretty crazy and out of scope for simple SSGs.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English3•6 hours ago
If it’s a sinple site https://gohugo.io/ might be an option.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English7•13 hours ago
there’s a ton of 'em
the sticking point will be a plugin or theme you depend on
third-party WP dev is extremely widely available, but not so much for other CMSes
- bitofhope ( @bitofhope@awful.systems ) English3•13 hours ago
Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English4•12 hours ago
there’s https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn’t have a ton of end users
I saw someone suggest Publii today, but I’ve never used it
- Mitex Leo ( @mitexleo@buddyverse.one ) English6•15 hours ago
I really don’t like what Matt is doing. Many developers are considering leaving the community.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English4•14 hours ago
yep. Even if WP Engine disintegrated into dust tomorrow, Mullenweg would still be the guy that fucked with the open source alleged charity that everyone relied on for a business grudge. Undoing that requires getting rid of the dependency on wordpress.org or getting rid of Matt.
Masterclass in foot shooting on display, really.