WordPress funding and market dominance: manton.org

@manton Definitely one of my concerns with the role of WordPress in the blogging ecosystem. I’ve been stewing around related thoughts for the past several days; I’ll have to see if I can crank out the blog post.

@smokey it’s the whole benevolent dictator thing all over again @manton

@manton @smokey I agree. We don’t need another monoculture. This is why the blogosphere should be looking into alternatives to WP like B2evolution, Serendipity and others.

@manton Well said, Manton, thanks!

@bradenslen @manton @smokey I agree both philosophically and personally. I have never really got on with WordPress. There’s something about its design and UI that doesn’t wok for me. That’s why I’m glad to be using micro.blog and Ghost - and to have those choices.

WordPress funding and market dominance@manton. I love WordPress. It’s been my blogging platform for over 15 years. Although I think it’s unlikely, I don’t want to see WordPress dominate to the point where new blog platform entrants have no chance of success. We have Ghost, Grave, Tumblr, Square Space, Blogger, Micro.blog and static file generators. I want to see that kind of diversity continue.On the other hand, no other platform offers the ease of use, functionality and extensibility (so many plugins) of WordPress.Like this:Like Loading…Related

@adders personally I think micro.blog UI is not the value factor for users. I think the blogging+social space platform is the value. I think @manton's reason for creationg micro.blog is still worth reading:

Instead of yet another social network, Micro.blog is designed to work with the open web. It’s built on RSS and independent microblogs. It’s about pulling together short posts and making them more useful and easier to interact with. It prioritizes both a safe community of microblogs as well as the freedom to post to your own site.

@khurtwilliams I can’t have explained myself well - I was agreeing with ALL those points @manton’s - just adding an aesthetic point of view. And my point was purely personal! I stayed on Movable Type for years because I couldn’t warm to WordPress.

@khurtwilliams One of the reasons I backed both Ghost and micro.blog when they were crowdfunding was exactly that: diversity. After 15 years of blogging the choice was getting very small. Thankfully, in the years since diversity has increased. And I only backed one blog platform that failed (Typed) along the way.

@adders I was a backer or Ghost and Typed projects. I was disappointed when Typed shutdown. I wish it had been open sourced.

@khurtwilliams I didn’t realize Dave Winer was working on something. Do you know what his project is called?

@manton Good Post. I used WordPress for a couple of years and then moved to Blot.im and Micro.blog and am so glad I moved.

@adders agreed. My main blog has been on Textpattern for 15 years.

@jmreekes it's 1999: 1999.io