What kind of licensing structure should a WordPress replacement have? 🤔

[@TheMaartian]

Straightforward to implement. Straightforward to scale. Straightforward to manage. Clean and robust. Yeah, I'd pay for a platform like that.

[@BradBordessa]

My annual software expenses are already at a fixed place of multiple hundreds of dollars. I happily pay this for a cobbled-together compromise. If you provided a solution to bring it all under one roof, I don't see why it wouldn't be worth a similar price.

[@TheRealPearsonified]

It's not a question of price, but rather of perception. Even though 99.9999% of WordPress users have never had a say in the direction or performance of the platform, they will still claim they want the ultimate solution to be "free and open source." They can't tell you precisely why, but it just _feels_ better to them. I like the idea of people being able to get started for free, but I'm not sure how you overcome the commercial problems that go along with that. In my view, giving out free software but then binding it up with trademarks is not only expensive, but also a dishonest misdirection that undermines the whole thing.

[@keithwjones]

This is starting to get interesting.

[@AndrewEddie]

"Democratic control over the platform" Oh man, that comment triggered my PTSD :)

[@dejeandev]

You're skimming over the fact that wordpress was created in a much different era. It's extensibility (and PHP i guess) cradled an industry of low-cost web development. Times change, web tech has never been cheaper or easier. The wordpress culture has dissolved. So whats supposed to be the catalyst this time? Server side javascript is king of open source culture now, not sure theres turning back

[@TheRealPearsonified]

Doesn't matter when it was created-it could have been refactored at any point to become more modernized and to work better for everyone. You are correct that everyone is obsessed with JS environments now, but I know there is still room for a simple, ubiquitous PHP application for running websites. Nothing else can hit the combination of fast, easy to use, easy to manage, and easy to extend. I will prove it.

[@modemlooper]

Open source is dead.

[@TheRealPearsonified]

The scales are falling from people's eyes, but the spell is stronger than most want to admit. People will still want "the next big thing" to be touted as "open source," despite the lessons of this epoch.