Is there a good alternative with a huge number of free plugins and themes?
WordPress is dead. Those contributors have all been there for ages. Without them behind it and Matt continuing to shit where he eats, there’s no coming back. It will stick around because it runs a metric fuckton of the web, but I foresee it basically being in a state of super unexciting maintenance mode.
It’ll be forked and the switch will happen extremely fast
Yeah, that’s how I hope this plays out. I’d love to see a fork take off with a healthier community.
Are we looking at the end of WordPress the FOSS CMS as we know it? Feels like another enshitification plan.
There are many other FOSS CMS systems, and WordPress has always been trash from a technical perspective. It just was one of the first options in the early internet and consequently developed an ecosystem early. Would be great if it would go away so it stops sucking all of the air out of the room and alternatives can pick up steam.
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