It would be interesting to see #WordPress 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.)
@FeralRobots so, amusingly enough WP actually *is* a fork of the early aughts GPL CMS b2/cafelog… https://github.com/leogopal/b2
@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