#fuck wordpress

[emeraldoo]

holy shit i just got such a good idea (in theory)

ok so remember how tumblr/wordpress is selling our data to midjourney and you have to manually opt out on all blogs+sideblogs

what if we made poison sideblogs that post the most rancid, dataset destroying, fetish unconcealed bullshit and opted into the midjorney horseshit

just saying it's like the nightshade/glaze stuff but way more accessible bc you dont need a mega computer

[mitsene]

✨🌙 Read my comic Glimmer! 🌙✨\

Glimmer now has its own website! Read the latest update and the whole thing through.

It's created super cheaply with rarebit on neocities, so please bear with me. Updates aren't gonna happen like, exactly at 9am every Tuesday (as I have a day job, actullally) but they will be regular and weekly. Posts will be up first on Patreon (both free and paid).

I've been eschewing wordpress and CMS editors in deference to basic HTML websites lately, as simpler things just seem to make more sense to me nowadays with how AI and social media is just in.. the world... in general... I can't schedule posts in advance and have to update each JS file/image manually, lol. But, I have control over basically everything and don't have to worry about backend security, SSL certificates or spam bots commenting on everything. anyhway. Enjoy!

[ratfc]

Don't become web designers guys, it's not worth it

[thegardengrows-infrozenrain]

on mobile app, where the communities view is literally just a container for the mobile website...

...i guess there's a new fucking button now for their dumbshit new subscription.

right over post too, they're trying to get you to accidentally click it. (isn't that illegal?)

[absurditii]

Hey uhh [insert big corp name]? Just- just wanted to ask why you’re doing all this AI crap, you’re kinda… I mean you don’t need the extra money- HEY HEY BACK STOP *whacks them with rolled up newspaper*

[ardathksheyna]

Yeah, I had to pop back in to drop some PHP dev snark.

My brain just imploded doing a code review on a WordPress plugin. Couldn't get through the review without sounding like Uncle Roger

PSA for WordPress devs. If you hook into a filter, make sure you're returning the first parameter of that filter so you're not blowing up a user's site. I just debugged an issue with a plugin that was hooking into the_content, but was returning a null instead of the first parameter, which resulted in missing content.

[juno-box]

sooooo the CEO of Tumblr & Wordpress is being sued on allegations of wage theft & human trafficking.

[unpretty]

being an artist on the internet while also being an accountant doesn't always feel like two jobs but sometimes it REALLY feels like two jobs

[retroity]

Honestly seeing @photomatt burning everything he has with the Wordpress community AFTER his infamous "car covered in hammers" breakdown here where he banned a trans girl from Tumblr and then went to another site to harass her is so funny.

Like damn when did you decide to be a complete shithead about literally every blogging platform you own, created, or are involved in

It’s such a damming lawsuit too and he’s continuing his famous strategy of never shutting the fuck up and posting through it what a fucking moron

[deusanatum]

Me: Hey WordPress, can I edit the public HTML please?

WordPress: Did you say you wanted an AI assistant? We can have AI write your content for you.

Me: No, I said can I please use the basic editing features to install files on my domain.

WordPress: Ah, yes. That'll be 300 dollars.

Me: I am going to kill you with an axe

"You should have a more nuanced opinion on AI, it can be useful in some case-" No. Fuck you. Fuck you, this tech is inherently evil and should be buried in the desert forever. All uses of it no matter how small are an affront to the very soul of humanity I mean that literally and with no caveats.

"That's so reactionary!" Yes, it is my reaction. If a dog shit in my shoe, my reaction would be disgust, not contemplation - this is no different.

"But what about-" DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

Had just about e-fucking-nough of this. It's only getting worse and it's hard to even be hopeful about the future anymore. All AI shills burn in hell forever I mean it.

[mira-hildegard]

Are you kidding me

[wanderestless]

write on the black lives matter movement in ways that make liberals uncomfortable: get your blog banned and vilified as a 'russian psyop', which @staff has never addressed afaik.

be black and trans with a blog: get your blog banned due to racist & transphobic reporting and hard-to-miss transphobic moderation

comment too loudly on obvious transphobic discrimination: get your blog banned with no warning or explanation, then get harassed by the ceo of tumblr

comment on shockingly inappropriate and law-breaking level of personal harassment by the ceo of tumblr: get your blog banned with no warning or explanation

and the cherry on top is 'hello fellow kids, we already sold your data, artwork, writing, and personal diaries but we promise we can un-sell it! we just need every single user to tell us they don't want their data scraped, because we assume everyone wants their privacy violated!'

[redsheild]

Hellsite is too kind a word

Full text:

"[I am canceling my WordPress subscription due to] mismanagement of Automattic and its subsidiaries by CEO Matt Mullenweg, in particular, the systemic failure to address the criminal harassment aimed at multiple LGBT (especially transgender) users of Tumblr and the choice to resolve this harassment by illegitimately banning the users that have spoken up about the shameful conduct of Tumblr staff. Recent events have made it clear that past problems regarding this issue, such as a lack of action and transparency, are not merely a result of corporate apathy, but that this inaction and indeed the actions taken against the aforementioned vulnerable parties by site staff are supported and driven by Matt Mullenweg."

[tippenfunkaport]

Just... the fact that it's, "We sold your data to AI companies!" and they didn't even pretend for 5 seconds that it was a profit share or revenue stream users could opt into really says it all.

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

the first time my account got nuked, i went through and queued/reblogged As Many of my old arts as i could find to account #2, and gonna b real that was fucking exhausting so. i'm probably not gonna do that Again for this account. But for now at least, i'm rebloggin Some more recent stuff at the moment, and down the line at certain points if i think of a particular art piece that i wanna show ppl again or smthn i may try and reblog those

however comma

i would LOVE to reblog / collect any of my old textposts/writings so if you have old textposts or essays etc of mine, please please please send them my way i will love you forever💖💖💖

[ardathksheyna]

I'm a PHP Dev—and I fucking hate WordPress

Or, if you're going to implement a templating language, use Handlebars or Twig instead of trying to roll an inconsistent half-assed version using html comments and JSON strings.

Disclaimer: I normally try to avoid talking about work-stuff but there is just some shit that is seriously bugging me right now about WordPress.

WordPress' push towards full-site editing and block themes has been frustrating, to say the least. Lack of documentation being a huge part of that frustration, and changing features between major versions is another.

Then there's the little things like modifying a parameter in that embedded JSON string but the site editor isn't smart enough to look at that parameter and "go hey, I need these classes" and add them. Instead, it just throws an unexpected content error at you.

That issue right there throws the claim "oh you can still code these templates in an IDE or text editor like normal" out the window. Especially when the code inside the html comment is touchy about spacing, or the templates themselves don't have an opening/closing tag structure that makes sense.

The editor not being smart enough to recognize a parameter and add the needed classes was today's frustration. It's not a hard feature to implement—I know WP devs who have developed blocks that do it automatically. There is no reason in the world why WordPress can't do the same.

Finally, Gutenberg needs a serious UX audit. Settings are in the block tool-bar when they should also be included in the side bar is frustrating, to say the least. It's namely layout settings—like the Cover block, for instance. Vertical alignment settings for the content inside the block are actually on the block's tool-bar, but if you're looking for them in the side bar, they're not there. Either put them in both spots, or eliminate one of them if you can't be bothered to be consistent.