All this Wordpress 5.0 Gutenberg stuff got me thinking. With Wordpress it seems like the Indieweb starts making serious and cool progress and the Wordpress people come along and knock the game board and pieces off the table. And it sounds like the disruption from Wordpress is going to continue for a couple of years.
Why not take a page out of Apple’s playbook and take control higher up in the food chain? Why not come out with an Indieweb compatible blog engine of our own? Either fork an existing open source project or build new? This does not mean you have to make it exclusive but make it the way the Indieweb wants the Indieweb elven magic to function. Also put in the standard blogging features most people expect. Why keep trying to adapt the Indieweb stuff to blog or CMS platforms that are at best indifferent, never designed for or just that don’t want to play ball?
This isn’t a slam on the coders who are working so hard to make everything work on Wordpress, I’m just asking if maybe it’s not time to find better terrain to fight from.
If the Indieweb really wants widespread adoption they need to come out with a turnkey solution. It would act as a solution for many and a proof of concept for others to emulate. Something that can be put in hosting C-panels for one touch install. Something that just works, is easy to move to and move away from. Something supported, active, growing with enough polish that it inspires confidence in the user.
I’d really like to hear serious discussion on this.
