It really isn't. It's undermined by all the metadata you need for its safety model and that's a part of the semantics. You cannot create an alternate grontend for rust that gets rid of all the parts people hate
I think the problem is that there is a huge number of people now whose only contact with the Internet has been social media. For them, that is where the Internet begins and where it ends. They'll use Reddit and not call it a "website" but an "app," because they have "installed" Reddit on their smartphones.
It doesn't help that most online forums have become subreddits, and that Google will show Reddit results over random forums. It makes sense because, understandably, Reddit can be assumed to be always safe, while a random forum might not be, but in the long run it it just gives Reddit an unfair advantage over smaller forums that could just as safe if not better than their subreddit equivalent, killing those forums in the process.
Now things are getting even worse as subreddits become Discord channels. That's why I root for things like Neocities and Tumblr to succeed.
in the modern age of Forums not being as popular, Discord (rip IRC) communities seemingly occupy this space now - they can be quite cozy, and give off a lot of the old vibes
Not even close. Discords owns your data and once the so-called-Discord-groupchat (server my ass, is NOT a server) closes down, you are out.
WIth Usenet your posted data and articles/discussions could be in your hard drive forever.
With Jabber and IRC you could bring your chat client, anything. Heck, even MSN/AOL supported several clients, both graphical and terminal, such as AMSN, tmsnc, Gaim/Pidgin, Miranda IM...
I just want to say I think what you did was right.
I started using Wordpress last year, in 2023. The first version of WP came out in 2003. Someone had to make sure this project stayed alive for 20 years just so I could use it. I think you're trying to make sure it stays alive for another 20 so someone like me could pick it up in the future. I think that's very noble.
Well, first, your website won't explode just because you can't update the plugins. If it's running just fine now, it can probably keep running just fine for months.
Second, WP Engine can create their own repository of plugins to update their customers' plugins instead of relying on Wordpress.org.
Third, WP Engine customers can just leave to another host if WP Engine can't actually provide the service they are selling.
I think the big issue is there was basically no warning and Matt is harming a LOT of innocent people/businesses because of a temper tantrum, rather than being responsible, giving 90 day notice to everyone (I mean this has been de facto status for 10+ years) and give them a chance to adjust. Instead he just tried to do the table clothe pull, wreck all the glassware on the table and act like he’s on the moral high ground.
I don't think there has ever been a single tech news that brought me joy in all my life. First I learned how to use computers, and then it has been downhill ever since.
Right now my greatest joy is in finding things that STILL exist rather than new things, because the things that still exist are generally better than anything new.
Reminds me of the way the way the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" takes care of his leather gloves and they stay with him on the order of decades.
I've heard that one of the Unix founding fathers had a directory with 125 files that all had single-byte names: one for each ASCII symbol except slash, dot and null. He would then test any new utility against this directory and chew the careless programmer out if it couldn't correctly handle every one of these names.
>Last week, in a blog post, Mullenweg said WP Engine was contributing 47 hours per week to the “Five for the Future” investment pledge to contribute resources toward the sustained growth of WordPress. Comparatively, he said Automattic was contributing 3,786 hours per week. He acknowledged that while these figures are just a “proxy,” there is a large gap in contribution despite both companies being a similar size and generating around a half billion dollars in revenue.
It seems to me that it isn't a simple "dispute." Automattic is contributing to WP org, but WP Engine isn't. If WP org was completely neutral, they still would have reasons to side with Automattic over WP Engine on this.
That’s really not a fair statement from him given:
1. Based on their github orgs, there is effectively no separation between wordpress.org and Automattic.
2. The core WP contributors trac has a long history of not really being welcome to new contributions. Outside of the design decisions coming from Automattic, third party contributions either die in multi-year deliberations or get directed to the plugin system.
3. The development culture around WP, which largely revolves around the plugin ecosystem - has always trended towards paid plugins over OSS software.
The quote says WP Engine is contributing. WP Engine also gave WP.org 75k in sponsorship money, I would say that's a contribution. It's also important to know that after WP.org took that 75k sponsorship money, they kicked them out of the event they sponsored.
I suspect that his figure on the number of hours is somewhat cooked up and biased. Did he cite a reliable and reasonable source of data that we can all consult to check the veracity of this claim?
