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Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
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Are you going to code a replacement?
That’s why. Everyone hates it, but not enough to hunker down and euthanize it.
Honestly coding a replacement wouldn't be difficult, there're already a few alternatives out there, it's the thousands of plugins you'd need to replace.
One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.
The plugin system is what keeps popping vulns in Wordpress in the first place.
Also, this XKCD - standards
Oh I'm aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it's full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.
But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn't just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.
I work with WordPress professionally and honestly I really do enjoy the platform, there's a lot of it that's very good. Having said that, none of my personal projects are on WordPress. Most of them are on Hugo and soon a lot of them will be on 11ty.
Wordpress has a lot of security issues due to its age and modularity. At some point devs needed to just say no, they never did, and now it’s everyone’s problem
It's not the devs but their clients that need to change. Plus many of the arguments against WordPress can also be made about Windows. Neither platform is going away any time soon.
Windows is being ditched in entire countries right now.