Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99% , from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its lawsuit against Mullenweg and Automattic
“They don’t actually make WordPress. They just resell it,” Mullenweg told Computerworld Friday evening. “If what they are reselling is no longer getting all of the free updates, they have less stuff to sell.”
“It doesn’t make sense for Automattic to pay people to work on all of these things,” he said. “We are under attack and we are circling the wagons. Our number one goal is for WP Engine to drop their expensive lawsuits against me and Automattic.”
What “innovation” has wordpress had since the dreadful new theme format?
ActivityPub integration?
It’s a plugin developed by a third party developer they acqui-hired.
I used it back in the day for the awesome comic press application. Was great for my webcomic. But now I hear thats gone. I was thinking of revamping my webcomic anyone know an alternative that I could integrate with my website?
Thought the same. There are surely more modern CMSs out there by now?
Nothing open source and as simple to set up as far as I know. I was very disappointed the last time I was looking for a CMS. Given the explosion of self hosted stuff it feels like CMS are really lagging behind.
Here‘s my quick list:
Other people seem to prefer Craft CMS, Ghost or Statamic. There are lots of free or paid alternatives to WordPress that are already better in most regards.