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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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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (9 children)

How has wordpress not been eclipsed by something else already. Most miserable piece of shit software.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Are you going to code a replacement?

    That’s why. Everyone hates it, but not enough to hunker down and euthanize it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I work with WordPress professionally and honestly I really do enjoy the platform, there's a lot of it that's very good. Having said that, none of my personal projects are on WordPress. Most of them are on Hugo and soon a lot of them will be on 11ty.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wordpress has a lot of security issues due to its age and modularity. At some point devs needed to just say no, they never did, and now it’s everyone’s problem

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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

    Also, this XKCD - standards

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months 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.

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