Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg’s return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted.
Tumblr’s never becoming the new PDF at this rate :-/
He’s pulling a reverse George Constanza.
good god just go AWAY already, jackass.
How has wordpress not been eclipsed by something else already. Most miserable piece of shit software.
I’m using PayloadCMS now. It’s fauxpensource, but eh, so is WordPress in a lot of areas.
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.
Matt Mullenwag is a piece of shit extortionist that I hope dies in a comedic way.
Wishing death on someone just because they’re a flagrant asshole is pretty extreme, no? That’s fucking wild if you’re serious.
Hi matto, i see you’re taking a break from harassing trans and black people on tumblr
Not if they are CEOs
The Nazis would have loved your level of inhumanity with the Jews back in the 1940s
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Nobody is born a CEO. Hating people for their ethnicity, sexuality or disability is inhumane, but that’s not who we’re talking about here. This is about someone that chooses to be a vile, parasitic extortionist.
You can’t just stop being a Jew, but it’s very easy to stop being a CEO.
Edit: It occurs to me that this might read like jewish, gay or disabled people cause damage, so I should clarify: Being jewish, gay or disabled isn’t harmful. There is nothing in common betweem the people the Nazis persecuted and the CEOs we’re talking about here.
Still missing the point. Completely. Matt is an asshat. No disagreement there. But that’s not something that warrants him being killed.
There is a difference between wanting him to be killed and looking forward to enjoy his death in a comedic fashion.
If he had a tragic death, that would kind of take the gas out of it.
No, there is no difference. Both are taking satisfaction in his death. You people are fucked up.
No one said anything about him being killed. The comment talked about him dying in a comedic way. Not the same thing.
“Hope dies” doesn’t mean killed? That’s some interesting mental gymnastics
I’m aware of the point, but I wanted to point out that the Nazi comparison doesn’t work. Whether it warrants hoping for his death is a separate question, but there’s a qualitative difference between voluntary asshattery and persecuting people for things outside their control and regardless of the harm they do.
Why are you telling someone who looks down on CEOs that he should also hate Jews alongside the Nazis?
Looking down on them is fine. Wishing death on them simply because you’re jealous and full of hate that they have more money than you is entirely different. And it seems that person is the latter.
Seems how? They didn’t say anything like that. You think the issue with this guy is because he’s rich and nothing else?
The funny thing is I’ve seen people saying the exact same thing you are to people laughing at Charlie Kirk getting killed, while doing their best to ignore all the things he stood for, said, and did. Right down to immediately accusing the person of adopting (an incorrect idea of) Nazism by not valuing all lives as precious. Just think about the brainpower behind people who think those laughing at Charlie Kirk are like the Nazis but not Charlie “Civil Rights was a mistake” Kirk.
There’s gotta be a term for people who get all righteous about treating all lives as precious while they ignore that the person in question actively makes the world worse.
Their response was in direct to my reply that someone shouldn’t be killed just for being an asshole, and they said “unless it’s a CEO”. I don’t know how you don’t comprehend that.
The non-zionist Jews are homies, and also mostly not CEOs.
rofl imagine defending a worse world. Wild.
Involving, say, hammers and cars?
can we add a rabid porcupine into this process somewhere
Add pies. It’s not an assault charge when a pie is thrown.
Extortionist?
He was trying to force Wordpress hosts to pay his foundation money to use the WP name and whatnot
fuck I haven’t heard of this, I wish he stayed off. I only think of him when I have to tick that childish pineapple checkbox on wordpress.org. I would be much more reassured if Wordpress was in a mature adult’s hands.
oh wow they’re just like chatgpt, they must be very successful!
booo
Its like its the middle of winter and the forecast says its going to be sunny an relatively warm on the weekend. Then you wake up Saturday and it’s freezing rain and thunder.
This is never a healthy thing
