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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork (techcrunch.com)
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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This will not kill Wordpress outright but it might very well significantly factor into the decision of every future person deciding if they should write a plugin to support Wordpress or some alternative CMS or if they should host a Wordpress instance or something else, especially companies offering commercial hosting.

It might even lead to a project or two that will eventually replace Wordpress in its dominant position.

[–] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Classic Press is a fork of WordPress that leaves out Gutenberg and has all the legacy PHP < 7.4 stuff stripped out. It's nice.

https://www.classicpress.net/

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

It's not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.