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WordPress is DOWN
I thought they were joking about shutting down for the holidays. I'm afraid this is for good. Have you guys who used to use WordPress already moved to the alternative?
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WordPress is the cancer of Internet.
We abandoned WordPress in 2008 and never looked back.
Nowadays we use Hexo.
Site (wordpress.org) and API (api.wordpress.org) work for me.
Probably partial outage
it was down for a few minutes lol?
the end is nigh
According to his post, they were supposed to be stopping new account registrations, new plugins, new themes and reviews. At least that is what I thought. I suppose at some point he will pull the plug on the whole wordpress.org ecosystem.
https://wordpress.org/news/2024/12/holiday-break/
This is no less funnier.
A static site generator, written in a (client-side) language the primary purpose of which is creating interactive web sites.
What? Hexo is written in Typescript and runs server side.
Mentally strong people, write HTML code on paper - scan - upload to webserver.
Mentally strong people run a server side rendering pipeline.
My server side rendering pipeline:
I use nginx to invoke PHP to invoke Node.js to invoke Puppeteer to invoke Chromium.
Client side receives a screenshot of the webpage.
They can never steal my super secret HTML and JavaScript code again.
How to have hyperlinks?
If the whole webpage is a screenshot picture, how to have hyperlinks you ask?
The
ISMAPattribute creates a server-side image map.You click anywhere and the server receives coordinates, like this:
Want a mobile site?
Sure.
I can use Selenium to control an Android emulator.
The screencast is streamed as MJPEG straight to your device!
Bandwidth consumption isn't a problem.
This is what 5G is for.
I'm concerned with accessibility
We are fully ADA compliant.
There's a 800 phone number on the page in text format.
Blind personnel can call this number to speak to a live operator, who would read the page to them.
This is a friendlier service than Text-To-Speech systems.
User can interact with the page by spoken or keypad commands.
That's web browsing without a computer screen.
Why are you trying to keep the HTML and JavaScript "super secret"?
I'm too ashamed to let others find out that the page is made with Microsoft FrontPage Express and Flash and ASP and jQuery, so it has to be kept secret.
What others are saying
@_cluxter_ on Twitter:
You do realize that it's just a matter of time before someone really consider this as something cool and next gen and implements it?
@ropsue on Twitter:
oh, perfect! And as an additional benefit we can go BACK to pixel perfect cross browser requirements
@dadaistoven on Twitter:
This is sheer genius
@_skris on Twitter:
I was there. I was there when it all began.
*before someone creates this framework/engine for real*
@anirbanroy2002 on Twitter:
Then search engines like Google will have to depend on Optical Character Recognition to index and rank pages!
Peyton McGinnis (@sergix):
This is probably the most over-engineered backend stack I've ever heard of.
Ilya Buligin (@ilyabuligin):
Can you show me this site? It's sound amazing
Madza (@Madza):
Hahah, made my day 🤣🤣👍
Hi,
This Matt guy should quit
He went after a Corp business house and now expressing frustrations for feeling the heat from their "lawyers"
Either you fight or you pull the plug and let that business house deal with this software.
They can take project but they can't take away your skill.
It seems like money spoils these people really bad.. People like Jack Dorsey simply quit after losing the hostile takeover battle. When there was so much negativity for elon, what stopped Jack and the team which got fired to jump back with a competitive product?
Similarly, let them have WP and Matt could proceed seperately.
So many projects have done this same, like for example, OwnCloud vs Nextcloud. They didn't like the business decisions, they parted away and built a successful competition and now slowly overtaking the business.
This matt guy seems really under prepared and now making things more and more complicated for himself. They way it is moving right now, he may find a legal takeover of his project.
Thanks.
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"JavaScript is a scripting or programming language that allows you to implement complex features on web pages — every time a web page does more than just sit there and display static information for you to look at" — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Scripting/What_is_JavaScript
"99% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
I know that.
Or you believe I commented thinking that a static site is being generated on each visit in visitor's browser?
I think you are misinformed and the examples don't fit this case. There is no ground for taking over the wp foundation or software as it is open source.