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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork (techcrunch.com)
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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn't it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

Sad part is that he's likely to get away with this pne since it's not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This will not kill Wordpress outright but it might very well significantly factor into the decision of every future person deciding if they should write a plugin to support Wordpress or some alternative CMS or if they should host a Wordpress instance or something else, especially companies offering commercial hosting.

It might even lead to a project or two that will eventually replace Wordpress in its dominant position.

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Classic Press is a fork of WordPress that leaves out Gutenberg and has all the legacy PHP < 7.4 stuff stripped out. It's nice.

https://www.classicpress.net/

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Huh, this actually looks very promising.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I feel like a lot of people using WordPress solely for blogging can transfer to Jekyll or Hugo, and lose nothing. There's a setup process involved, but you can't get hacked with static pages.

For the rest there's always the far more top-heavy Drupal.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

affecting

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

WPE is already in legal battle with him, isn't it?