Jeff GeerlingI didn't have the rapid demise of Wordpress on my 2024 bingo card.
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.