Why do we care so much about Wordpress? Wordpress has always been a swamp, why are we now all suddenly pretending like it’s this glamorous thing Matt is destroying? How did we get here? It has never been a user friendly or sensible way to host a god damn website…
Because it’s one of the most prolific OSS projects on the web, and hosts more than 40% of websites (and that number was growing until a year or two ago)? It was pretty sensible when it was created compared to other CMSes of the day! So “never sensible” is probably an exaggeration, if even massive, massive sites like nasa.gov are using it.
But putting its merits to the side, people firstly love drama and love sharing their opinions about contentious situations. And secondly, hopefully there are lessons to be learned for other OSS projects and other founders about how NOT to handle this kind of situation.
It's one of the few services I actively refuse to host because of security issues. You either run a Wordpress hosting company or buy a managed instance from one.
> It is much easier to add features to reliable software, than it is to add reliability to featureful software.
Not sure about this tbh. In a lot of cases yeah maybe. But when you are dealing with complicated business logic where there is a lot of bells and whistles required, building a simple reliable version can lead you into a naive implementation that might be reliable but very hard to extend, while making an unstable complicated thing can help you understand the pit falls and you can work back from there into something more reliable. So I think this depends very much on the context.
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