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WordPress retaliation impacts community

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238 points chmaynard | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 04:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CamelCaseName ◴[17 Oct 24 05:01 UTC] No.41866560[source]▶
Perhaps I missed something, but I wonder why WP didn't just include ACF functionality in WP Core from the very beginning?

Why fight in public when you can just commoditize your dependant competitor?

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1. Pikamander2 ◴[17 Oct 24 07:08 UTC] No.41867150[source]▶
WordPress's core dev team has had a longstanding aversion to including "unnecessary" features in the core to avoid bloat, with the idea that plugins can take care of any gaps in functionality.

It sounds like a reasonable philosophy until you see just how many basic CMS features it's missing and subsequently how many sites are running 20+ poorly-coded plugins that spam the dashboard notifications and have numerous PHP vulnerabilities.

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2. lrae ◴[17 Oct 24 09:25 UTC] No.41867840[source]▶
Those 20 poorly written plugins make a good amount of money though, which is why many of those plugins' creators and affiliated "wordpress influencers" also do an outstanding job pushing the sentiment against more integrations into the core.