The internet is fragmenting and healing. It was never supposed to be so centralized.

I always find it funny how WordPress somehow believes they aren't just lucky that their EXTREMELY shitty software was useful at the time. It shows how power makes people think they have value.

Just a friendly reminder to anyone looking for free website hosting that dozens of Public Access Unix Systems exist and would love to have you as new members.

Almost all of them offer free membership that comes with web hosting, email, and other useful services. Some like SDF and midnight pub come with web browser interfaces allowing easy access to non-geeky users. Some pubnixes do have a small barrier to entry in which you may need to learn how to navigate a conputer through command line terminal.

https://sdf.org/?signup

https://tildeverse.org/members/

https://midnight.pub/

https://envs.net/

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/cdg.thegonz.net/infrastructure/hosting/ (this last one is a really large repository for all known pubnixes that also allow for gemini capsule hosting, most of them also have regular https/webpage hosting options as well.

This could also spark the creation of an alternative hub to wordpress.org, one that would be truly operated in the interest of the [open source] community.

I really hope so.

The current one bans most plugin forks, it's a bit of farce to prop up freemium plugins.

Wow this might be an end of an era. Crazy. The wp community has been around for a large part of my stay on the Internet. Wild.

Matt never ceases to amaze with his smoothbrain decisions.

The amount of effort this moron puts into his weird personal vendetta against WP engine, even after the court told him that he has nothing, which was actually his last chance to end this kinda gracefully, could've been used for so much better things.

And he's not only successfully kicking himself in the balls, he's willing to throw so many years of community and project time and effort under the bus for it.

Go on Matt, keep telling how much you're only doing this for WordPress.

It's like I heard the voices of thousands of cheap businesses owners who refuse to pay for a website domain cry out .... ....and then were silenced

How long until some organization forks the project and everybody switches to it?

With all the plugins etc. it might take a while, but once a critical mass is reached it would put an end to this idiocy.

Very misleading article. They're not shutting down wordpress.org, just the registration of new accounts, plugin, etc

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/12/holiday-break/

Mullenweg shat the bed again?

Well, I fully expect him to step on his dick, but I did not expect him to also kick himself in the balls while doing so.

Congrats Matt, rarely are my expectations of dumb behavior exceeded so spectacularly!

Summary: he can't take his ball but he's going home.

Prediction: WP Engine will open hosting of plugin source projects.

And discuss.

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