Crap Towns called Hythe "...quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent." and "...the place that makes nearby Folkestone look like Las Vegas."

As someone who grew up in Hythe in the 80s and 90s I'd point out that the Rotunda was a far cry from Vegas.

https://www.warrenpress.net/FolkestoneThenNow/The_Demolition...

> quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent.

This is an extremely high bar to hit in a county that also contains Ashford.

Ashford at least has a high-speed rail connection to London. If nominations were to open today, I'd vote Dover.

It used to have one to Paris however when you look at how they voted in the referendum you can see why it doesn't anymore.

I worked at Portex back in the 80s. After a shift at that factory it was a pleasure to get home, slip on the shell suit and spend the evening drinking and discussing minor, mindless vandalism opportunities. I moved away in the end (to a squat in London) because I knew, deep down, there had to be something better for me out there.

“WordPress is in trouble” depends on what “WordPress” is.

WordPress the supply chain is currently dependent on wordpress.org. The community is working to route around this by decentralising distribution - see efforts such as AspirePress.

WordPress the software development project is dependent on wordpress.org, and there is no way to route around this unless Matt agrees to give up his DFL position or a fork is created.

WordPress the brand is being tarnished, mostly by Matt’s actions. wpdrama creates a riskier environment when assessing whether to use it as a CMS.

WordPress the community is being denigrated and diminished. Again, I think only a change in governance can resolve that.

> “WordPress is in trouble” depends on what “WordPress” is.

The one thing I’ve learned from all this drama is that all of the separated components of “WordPress”, from the .com to the .org and from the code to the hosting, were mostly superficial. Mullenweg appears to be equally in control of all of them and throws his weight around wherever it suits his agenda.

The only thing I have not seen Matt do is taking even an ounce of accountability. It simply does not exist for him. Just like his professionalism that’s not there.

I know Matt hangs around these parts and at no turn have I seen him engage in curious conversation.

Basically what I have seen is emotional outbursts and crusading against the windmills.

Even in implementation they're pretty intertwined. The org version is missing a bunch of basic features that make com's "jetpack" plugin almost mandatory, which includes invasive tracking that's hard to turn off.

ClassicPress is the only public one with any traction. wordpress.com could be considered a private fork.

There is no fork at the moment, there was only discussion of how to move releases forward on PostStatus Slack. It's a purge.

There was a submission like that :) https://github.com/CSS-Next/css-next/issues/105#issuecomment...

I don't know what you mean by "bumpy road". ACF has been solid for years, and has received excellent care and updates since moving to Delicious Brains and then WP Engine.

You don't need to migrate from ACF to a different plugin, you can still access ACF and received future updates indepedent of wordpress.org. See https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upg...

I wonder what LBJ would make of that statement?

One person's divisive, minority issue is another's fight for the fundamental right to be treated equally under the law.

Could you please consider adding support for custom fields as part of this? For example, to be really useful in the in the UK, donation links would need to ask if the donor is eligible for Gift Aid (which increases donations by 25%). This then needs at least house/flat number and postcode to make a valid Gift Aid application (and some organisations may ask for more address details than that).

With those additional fields it would mean we could post donation links all over the place, and then get donor details out of Stripe for the donations team. Thanks :)

There is also an excellent NPR Throughline episode on this: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955735429/what-happened-after...