Ancestors

Written by Dave Neary on 2025-01-10 at 15:48

Hmmm... I don't know how to feel about this. Feels like the beginning of the end of Wordpress's dominance when the main developer of the project says "we're going to do less upstream so as not to improve our competitor's products, we're just going to make our products better, and match competitors' efforts upstream": https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

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Toot

Written by Dave Neary on 2025-01-10 at 15:49

I understand the sentiment, but it essentially accelerated the divergence of Wordpress.com and WPEngine from the upstream project, and ends up being a race to the bottom for the upstream project.

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Descendants

Written by Dave Neary on 2025-01-10 at 15:54

I think the optimal solution would have been to define clear boundaries between shared platform across projects (possibly with a reduced scope for wordpress.org), and product value-add. Collaborate on a commons, differentiate in products.

I'm interested in @adamhjk's take on this - maybe we should chat about it over a beer in Ghent.

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Written by Troed Sångberg on 2025-01-10 at 15:50

@dneary Who dares creating a company presence based on using Wordpress now?

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Written by Dave Neary on 2025-01-10 at 15:52

@troed I think deciding which WP vendor has the best products is an option for anyone. Building a company website on upstream WordPress seems risky, though. It's the start of a long, slow death of the open source project.

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