@chx the wild part is the neither Joost nor Karim proposed a fork. They proposed a clearer governance model. Matt’s post is about as clear of a “fuck you, if I’m not in absolute power, it’s not wordpress” declaration as one can get
One of the incredible ironies of the modern web is that StackOverflow was basically created to curbstomp a terribly exploitative SEO web site that annoyed tech people for years by polluting search responses with trash responses.
Then generative AI turned all of SO's content into the next generation of trash responses.
@hipsterelectron i dove ridiculously deep on the content jodeling side years back and concluded that, among other things, the hard and fast boundry a lot of systems have between “structured doc” and “human authored text markup” is just nine million problems in a trench coat, but fighting it is kind of like trying to convince gravity to rotate, that approach make me happy even if the rest of the offering has hiccups
@hipsterelectron the folks that built Sanity.io built their in-app text controls on top of slate, and it really is solid compared to other offerings. The approach lets them tread an entire document as structured data, with certain portions “exposed” in an editor, rather than “a json bundle that contains a godforsaken text property full of markdown or html”
@hipsterelectron i have mixed feelings about the JSification of the universe but Slate feels like one of the better foundational tools for in-browser text editing, in part because it seems to understand that it is a dom manager rather than (first and foremost) a visual design tool
@dahukanna nice! That’s the approach I’ve been leaning towards with my stuff, but the “hmmm, should I just build… right on some distrobuted/federated platform?” Is always tempting