WordPress retaliation impacts community

Nice detailed article. However, in these two places it doesn't seem clear that it was just the Slack account that was deactivated. Here:

> Javier Casares shared that his account was deactivated after he asked a series of questions in a Slack thread started by Colin Stewart.

And here, referring to Terence Eden:

> He later reported on Mastodon that his account was deactivated.

Another thing – with that headline, I was hoping for some more info on how it impacts community like how many migrated away from WordPress or even a change in market share. However I'm not sure where that's available on a daily or weekly basis.

Edit: here's one that does a report once a month. Not sure how accurate it is: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma...

I can confirm that only my Slack account has been deactivated.

Although, that said, I anticipate an eventual purge of all WP related accounts for users involved in Lèse-majesté.

Regarding usage, I wouldn't expect to see an immediate decline. It takes a long time to plan a migration, as users of ReiserFS found out.

I mean. It’s too early to say. If we’re talking raw traffic — the high profile enterprise sites have long term contracts. And it’s VERY hard to migrate hosting providers, let alone entire CMSes. So it will take a long period of enterprises not wanting to buy into WordPress for the traffic to die down.

Beyond that, which sides would move? Those owned by people who were invested in WordPress. Honestly, that’s probably not a super massive share of the websites. The random small businesses and individual people might not ever hear about this drama. It would take a while for new projects to stop getting built with WordPress.

So we won’t see that impact over the course of a couple weeks. Maybe several years.

But the community is way more about contributing to the core project (there are many hundreds of contributors in each release). With plenty of high profile ones leaving, it’s gonna be a blow to the project if good people don’t or can’t step up.