👁️👁️Mullenweg "pauses" WordPress Services for "holiday break." Takes jabs at #wpengine
Cryptic post by Matt Mullenweg announces a pause in WordPress services, expressing hope to reopen "sometime in the new year" saying that it hinged on his being able to find the “time, energy, and money." #WordPress
Paused:
New account registrations on WordPress.org
New plugin directory submissions
New plugin reviews
New theme directory submissions
New photo directory submissions
He writes the pause doesn’t affect the ability to install new instances of WordPress sites.
#mattmullenweg
Allen Very Serious Versfeld
in reply to Paul Chambers • • •Paul Chambers
in reply to Allen Very Serious Versfeld • • •@uastronomer If I operated a major website off WordPress, I would truly consider migrating to something else after seeing the months of erratic behavior.
Like WPEngine or not, and the people behind it, but he is upset they took the marketplace that he wanted to create.
He is crashing and burning something very great.
It explains why WordPress became so bloated and dysfunctional, in my opinion, esp the backend admin, if he is this erratic in the development of that.
Allen Very Serious Versfeld
in reply to Paul Chambers • • •I don't host a lot of websites anymore, but the two important ones are both wordpress, and very old.
And I'm just working up the energy and free time to migrate them to something else. Ghost, maybe, or even just rebuild them as static html/css
Paul Chambers
in reply to Allen Very Serious Versfeld • • •@uastronomer There's a discussion going on at a different post thread about WordPress alternatives that just popped up in my timeline
"Craft is probably my favorite, Ghost is pretty good too. If you are into static sites, Eleventy is very flexible." writing.exchange/@ernie/113686…
Ernie Smith (@ernie@writing.exchange)
Writing ExchangeAllen Very Serious Versfeld
in reply to Paul Chambers • • •