Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place), page 6

@mcc @jalefkowit DO NOT GET ME STARTED I am literally going to be doing a keynote talk with @karenmcgrane about the problems that component/block page building leaves on users' doorsteps, which is not quite related but GRRRAR etc http://eaton.fyi/talks/buried-in-blocks/

I think one of the bits that's often overlooked is how important CPanel's early inclusion of WordPress was, at a time when almost every cheap shared hosting account was “Here, have a CPanel login”

@jalefkowit The Drupal world long lamented that "It's easy to build WordPress with Drupal, why don't more bloggers use Drupal?”

…Because they don't want to build WordPress?

@mcc @jalefkowit There are actually a few of them floating around — https://github.com/sveltia/sveltia-cms and https://decapcms.org stand out, but there are still rough edges. One of the virtues™ of WP was/is a very tight focus and unwillingness to add many useful-but-complicating features to the core project.

@adrienne @simonrjones https://www.threads.net/@eaton.fyi/post/DBHd4IrhiTD should work, I think!

@adrienne @simonrjones i went on a tear about it over on threads, but honestly i think his response to DHH says a lot. He mocked DHH as not having “captured wnough value” in the Rails ecosystem, which is… exactly the kind of argument that justifies free rider companies in OSS. It’s an argument utterly incompatible with his “just defending OSS principles” rationale, and rules out simple delusion AFAIC.

@adrienne I *think* that’s just the team leads, not the total group, but yeah

@beep this is going to be our industry’s Shaka, When The Walls Fell

@kf6nux @adrienne OOF

@obviousdwest @adrienne when people started talking about forking I was pretty skeptical: it takes tremendous investment to maintain a successful fork, and it’s rare for even heated community drama to motivate a sufficiently skilled/diverse/committed team to actually replace the original project.

But by God, Matt is *trying*.

@adrienne Meanwhile… WP’s accessibility team meetings are on hold, because… neither of the team’s reps can log into WP.org anymore.

@maxh he announced it as a servie to the community, because “they’re no longer maintaining it,” which is hilarious because they are — but he’smblocked them from posting *their* updates to it on wp.org. Just wild.

@maxh Matt forked and renamed the popular (ie 2M+ sites use it) plugin owned by the company he’s feuding with, then switched it with that company’s version in the official wordpress plugin repository.

@coxn @adrienne Wordpress nerd drama just keeps intruding into internet infrastructure drama, and matt is determined to stay The Main Character

@adrienne AMERICA UNDER ATTACK

@skc Kudos. I know it wasn’t an easy decision.

@SwiftOnSecurity I genuinely don’t think humanity’s ready for something that is basically a statistical engine with high verbal skills. There is genuinely amazing magic at play but so many people totally misunderstand where the magic’s concentrated. Like using superglue for coffee sweetener. That’s not what it’s good at! *sob*

@deane As long as you’ve got a straightforward and unambiguous mapping between “what is requested” and “what’s the pathname”, yeah, modern SSDs really ARE database-fast. It’s wild!

@Meyerweb It is fantastic to see the hacking Mat and I did on that come to fruition, thank you so much for sharing your work!

@FeralRobots @da_667 “I am attacking them because they don’t contribute, and banning them from contributing” is a look all right