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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 02:10:48 JST mcc

   I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."

   https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 02:16:10 JST Joe Ortiz

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     @mcc Yeah it totally sucks since SimpleNote is the one product that they haven't truly enshittified yet but I feel it will be at some point the way it's going.

     If you haven't tried it yet, I do like and have used Joplin a lot more. I sync it with my Nextcloud instance and it's cross platform plus it works so well.
     https://joplinapp.org/

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 02:16:11 JST mcc

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     How likely is it we could see a fork of the WordPress.org updates/plugins backend? At least some of the wordpress.org features are negatives to me anyway so I'd be okay with losing them (the "news" page contains information I don't care about, and it appears to be leaking my IP/location to Automattic every time I open my personal WP admin page). But the plugin repository is kind of hard to work without.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 02:16:11 JST mcc

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     What's really worrisome to me is whether CEO Matt's errattic-ness starts to impact SimpleNote. I don't really like WP; it's just something I used in my twenties that now I can't get rid of. But SimpleNote is very possibly my favorite piece of software in the world at this moment, my one critical-path cloud app that never "enshittified". If you've been following this account, you may have noticed I come to hate software very easily. I really honestly like SimpleNote. And it's owned by Automattic.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:17:11 JST mcc

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     Several people seem to have been banned from wordpress.org for just taking part in that Slack discussion screenshotted above. This is really bad, given one of the foundational premises of WordPress is that it's safe to use open source software that partially depends on network services controlled by a single company! I want to make jokes about how we've moved from "CEO meltdown" tropes to "forum admin meltdown" tropes but I think making jokes about "Matt" might obscure that this is Actually Bad

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:17:12 JST mcc

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     • Ernie Smith

     So I was reading this article (h/t @ernie)

     https://www.404media.co/wordpress-checkbox-login-wp-engine/

     and I hit this kinda jawdropper of, sorry to link the bad place, a tweet:

     https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963052183433331

     Where someone describes being banned from wordpress.org for asking questions about the "affiliated with WP Engine" checkbox. Note that's a thread, which neither the 404media post nor probably the Twitter website will show you, and there are followups beyond that one screenshot. I assure you they were reasonable and calmly stated

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:17:12 JST mcc

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     Or in summary https://bird.gmem.ca/@arch_ebooks/statuses/01J9T9SGTN381KK54B9QXK0V7Q

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:19:14 JST mcc

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     There are people somewhere whose livelihoods depend on this piece of software working smoothly!

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     Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:19:18 JST Glenn Fleishman

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     @mcc He’s trying to be Musk for no reason I can understand.

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     Aslak Raanes (aslakr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 16:19:22 JST Aslak Raanes

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     • Glenn Fleishman

     @glennf @mcc I suspect the reason is money. Maybe buying Tumblr (or something else) was a bit too much? https://mastodon.hccp.org/@igb/113281273494369456