Post #579770

2026-03-07 19:18 UTC

Until I retired I ran my own website on Wordpress. When I retired I closed that but got involved with a local boat club and helped set up their site on WP. Left that a few years ago and someone else runs it now. Consequently although I&#39;ve noticed some disagreements about WordPress on here I haven&#39;t really been paying attention. What&#39;s the situation? I&#39;m thinking of creating a new blog, is WP still a decent option? What&#39;s the TL:DR version of events? #wordpress #blogging

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@seindal@mastodon.uno 2026-03-07 20:19

@pthane The main problem with WordPress is an infantile type named Matt.

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@clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-07 20:46

@pthane the problem was Matt - now it seems to have gone quiet as he’s learnt to actually keep quieter, not really heard much more since early 2025, when we had to deal with all this (best summary around but still a fair lot of it): https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d Also see https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt

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@bootblackcub@woof.group 2026-03-08 09:46

@pthane so the most suscinct summary is that automatic, the company that stewards wordpress and is responsible for most of its development has been doing more and more shady stuff. As a result a lot of people are feeling more reluctant to recommend it as a platform.

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-03-08 11:12

@pthane TLDR is that one of the original authors of #Wordpress, who himself owns one of the big Wordpress hosting sites, tried to strong arm other wordpress hosting sites into paying him money. The noise has died down, so I imagine he failed. As a software snob I consider Wordpress poorly engineered and ludicrously over-complex for running a blog; from a technical point of view there are hundreds of better solutions. But it is well known and user friendly.

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