mccOct 9, 2024

I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

tante (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine. While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.

tldr.nettime
Show threadmccOct 9, 2024
How likely is it we could see a fork of the WordPress.org updates/plugins backend? At least some of the wordpress.org features are negatives to me anyway so I'd be okay with losing them (the "news" page contains information I don't care about, and it appears to be leaking my IP/location to Automattic every time I open my personal WP admin page). But the plugin repository is kind of hard to work without.
Show threadgkrnours
@mcc like classicPress?
Oct 9, 2024 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadmccOct 9, 2024
@gkrnours I only found out about this today but it sounds good. If I'd learned about it in January it would have maybe saved me a lot of time this year.
Show threadgkrnoursOct 9, 2024
@mcc I only learned about it due to matt's meltdown. I also learned of publii due to cohost closing down. Sad events bring knowledge.