Jeff GeerlingI didn't have the rapid demise of Wordpress on my 2024 bingo card.
Andrew 
@geerlingguy they really have lost the plot.
Luís Correia@geerlingguy what changed exactly?
@luisfcorreia - Matt Mullenweg took over maintainership of a popular plugin today without the consent of the plugin maintainers: https://twitter.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049
Advanced Custom Fields (@wp_acf) on X
We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org. A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of
Ed@geerlingguy @luisfcorreia Oof, taking contribution by force I guess. Not a great look.
@geerlingguy ouch, that's a dead sentence. Thanks
Benjamin@geerlingguy @luisfcorreia WHAT ARE YOU DOING MATT? This is nuts.
Rasmus Lindegaard@BenjaminNelan @geerlingguy @luisfcorreia holy crap the rethoric here is hostile.
Well, i was never going to use WordPress.
Guess what hasn't changed.
@rasmus91 @geerlingguy @luisfcorreia Yeah it's particularly toxic. I'm managing several WP sites with multiple custom themes/plugins... time to start learning something else I guess. What a mess.
And today ACF has sent out emails to it's users about the #WordPress hostile takeover. @geerlingguy
MikO 
@geerlingguy @luisfcorreia from the standpoint of a big, german agency, this looks like a good thing.
it is way better to rely on plugins maintained by automattic, than some random dude that has a "pro" version to offer.
serious agencies do not use third-party plugins at all, though, so this wont matter the slightest. case in point, more agencies will start using this plugin going forward.
it is way better to rely on plugins maintained by automattic, than some random dude that has a "pro" version to offer.
serious agencies do not use third-party plugins at all, though, so this wont matter the slightest. case in point, more agencies will start using this plugin going forward.
JW 🕸@geerlingguy Thinking my choice to switch to WP for the personal site wasn't so wise. I've got other fish to fry before I loop back around to it, so I guess we'll see.
@jw Oof! Hopefully someone forks it, or Matt comes to his senses, soon.
gary@geerlingguy it is all about power and money lol, it kind of deserves too go up in flames
@geerlingguy i think i would paraphrase that by saying wp may still be a goto cms regardless of the power struggle and issues - the user base is so huge you would be dumb to pass it by, things will shake out and normalize
@gary_alderson depending on how much longer Matt is at the helm. He's burning every bit of goodwill to the ground. How long will employees and agencies stick around?
@geerlingguy the open source ip will remain - small guys like me have no choice but to look at the preeminent cms on the web with interest - what is happening in c suite and with licensing does not play a big role in decsion making - it will blow over and get settled, the lawyers will do fine, the companies will get somewhat compromised and maybe they should, the open source devs are sort of the odd men out here
altruios phasma@gary_alderson @geerlingguy we should not encourage this new normal with our financial patronage. When a megalomaniac takes over a large service (re: musk and twitter, or Matt and Wordpress in this case), we should shun that service financially until they vacate (or change: which is rare). Or we should nationalize the service properly: to protect against such megalomaniacs… but that approach might just be trading problems.
Joefrey Kibuule, MD@geerlingguy You kind of have to wonder if a person who feel they are on the right side of the facts makes these kinds of moves unilaterally.
PHolder 
@geerlingguy Demise? I was unaware that removing one seller of the service was considered a demise. Is there something else going on, a boycott or something I am unaware of?
@PHolder he's blocked people from the community for asking about a weird checkbox requirement and today maliciously took control over a popular plugin after blocking its maintainers from logging in.
@geerlingguy I guess this is "normal" FOSS drama and not the end of anything. People just want to be able to host their site without drama, so first one to get that figured out wins.
Eventually someone creates a system for WP plugins that doesn't require access to the .org domain or involve Matt. This will fork the community, and life will go on...
This is basically the same drama as the ones involving forcing Apple and Google to let 3rd party stores for their OSes have 1st party status.
@geerlingguy Here comes at least one of the forks https://twit.social/deck/@webdev_discu[email protected]/113354127418361816
ThomasToSpace@geerlingguy It's so sad to see. It's a wonderful and caring community and then one guy just flushes it all down the toilet.
@geerlingguy Most things are one bad day away from oblivion. Twitter, Wordpress, Cloudstrike to name a few.
Sam Wilkinson@geerlingguy This has to have an impact on other Automattic products too. I’ve stopped using Day One and Beeper - I don’t feel I can trust them with personal data after behavior like this.
a Witty Name@geerlingguy
Having been a part of WordPress community since 2006, I am so disappointed with Mullenweg’s action these days.
Maybe it’s time for a new platform.
Radio Azureus@geerlingguy just wait for the Forks plural
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Steve CarusoYeah this was... weird. However, it's the perfect excuse I've been looking forward to get all of my old WordPress sites archived and in a flat file format (in my case, 11ty). Markdown just feels more stable right now -- for a lot of things.