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Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted (www.theverge.com)
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Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg’s return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly coding a replacement wouldn't be difficult, there're already a few alternatives out there, it's the thousands of plugins you'd need to replace.

One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The plugin system is what keeps popping vulns in Wordpress in the first place.

Also, this XKCD - standards

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Oh I'm aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it's full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.

But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn't just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.