This #wordpress mess is deeply troubling. My main site is built on it and my indie shop depends on it. It’s my only refuge from the exploitation of Etsy.

I wish sleazy Silicon Valley fucknuggets like Mullenweg would stop making everything good worse.

@operationpuppet WP used to be my livelihood, really glad I jumped ship on that 😩

@thegiddystitcher Yeah I actually used to do front-end dev, mostly on WP.

I should start looking for an alternative to WooCommerce that won’t fee gouge. Tall order, these days.

@operationpuppet Yeah it seems like WooCommerce, Etsy or Shopify is all anyone ever uses. Bleh.

Still, I keep looking! Good luck to both of us.

@operationpuppet I switched over to https://classicpress.net - hopefully it will stick around long-term
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