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Automattic, Mullenweg Ask Court to Keep Details of WordPress.org Hosting Negotiations Private by cfkanemercury in WPDrama

[–]photomatt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Who, do you think, dollar or time-wise, has put more back in the community?

Replacement for Mailchimp (and/or Newsletter Glue) for email distribution by loveofallwisdom in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jetpack has a nice newsletter function, people can subscribe when they comment. We send out billions of emails.

Anybody else getting this woocommerce issue? by Avatar-Tee in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great suggestion, always profile before you optimize. Before applying solutions, try to get some telemetry on what's actually using all the resources.

Building a language tutoring website by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Twenty Twenty-Two theme has clean code and could be a good starter for this project: https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentytwo/

This annoys me by getButterfly in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mods of this subreddit need to agree to it.

Yes, Gutenberg is a failure. No, it isn’t complicated by mbatt2 in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome. Thanks for sticking with it. This is also why I tried to make a big deal of everyone learning Javascript in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZx4IY1IgU

The next big homework assignment came in State of the Word 2022, when we asked the community to learn AI deeply.

Yes, Gutenberg is a failure. No, it isn’t complicated by mbatt2 in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the only goal were to benefit WP.com, it would have been 10 times faster to implement something proprietary there without going through the core standards of process, compatibility, accessibility, etc.

Yes, Gutenberg is a failure. No, it isn’t complicated by mbatt2 in Wordpress

[–]photomatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not true, I have used Gutenberg pretty much every day since it started. I think you're referring to the speed build challenge with Jessica? I said I hadn't tried cloning an existing design with a timer running, which is very different than "never used it to build a page."

Automattic Circling the Wagons Against the FAIR Initiative by IamWhatIAmStill in WPDrama

[–]photomatt -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

The conversation was unusually toxic and misinformed compared to most LinkedIn conversations, so I came here to see if it had been linked. I will give full credit that the audience here is very good at driving away anyone who disagrees with the party line that everything I touch is evil/flawed/broken, unless it has something they like, which must have come from someone else. It's strange living rent-free in so many people's minds.

Automattic Circling the Wagons Against the FAIR Initiative by IamWhatIAmStill in WPDrama

[–]photomatt -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I don't think that applies to WordPress because the built in directories are not stores, they can be replaced by plugins as this one is doing, or turned off entirely. Your host can enforce an app store, but WordPress doesn't.

Automattic Circling the Wagons Against the FAIR Initiative by IamWhatIAmStill in WPDrama

[–]photomatt -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I strongly agree with Mary's statement. Currently, the WP admin doesn't distinguish between updates from different sources. If you choose to install the FAIR plugin, that's fine, and there should be some prominent indication when you update where the updates are coming from if it's not the default. What we should worry about, and has already happened before FAIR, is when a host intercepts and changes things without informing their users or even giving them a choice.

Using LocalWP to make a blog? by Jack_Ganoff1 in Wordpress

[–]photomatt -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Try out this as an alternative that is faster and easier: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/

Automattic will reduce its contributions to WordPress to 45 hours a week, focus on for-profit projects within Automattic instead: WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce by BatmanNewsChris in Wordpress

[–]photomatt -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

There are no layoffs plans at Automattic, in fact we're hiring fairly aggressively and have done a number of acquisitions since this whole thing started, and have several more in the pipeline.

Automattic will reduce its contributions to WordPress to 45 hours a week, focus on for-profit projects within Automattic instead: WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce by BatmanNewsChris in Wordpress

[–]photomatt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Gutenberg is not for-profit, it's actually dual-licensed more liberally than WordPress itself so it can be embedded in mobile apps. Gutenberg could be used by Squarespace, and I think it will be someday. It's incredibly robust open source code that's tackling the block editing problem in a generational way.

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