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FeralRobots

It would be interesting to see fork hard in response to Automattic's clear desire to have their open source cake & copyright-restrict it, too.

I'd find it fascinating if someone did a database-compatible fork with a wholly new front end. That basically happened w/*Nuke in the early aughts. (Hell, when I first looked at the WP database schema I was like 'holy crap this is PostNuke!' I still think they basically took a *Nuke schema as a starting point & wrote a new front end.)

@eaton Do you happen to recall if it was a Nuke derivative?

@FeralRobots nope, not AFAICT. Just took a spin through the code and it definitely looks like its own thing. That said, the general “users/posts/meta dumping ground for unanticipated data so nobody has to figure out schema management” approach is a SUPER early aughts vibe

@FeralRobots tbf, that impulse eventually shifted a lot of young projects to “ehhhhhh, just toss it in mongodb” lol