Mark Pilgrim dives into WordPress
[17:05 on 05/14] {markp} who gets the money from wordpres.org/donate.php?
[17:05 on 05/14] {markp} er, wordpress.org
[17:05 on 05/14] {laughinglizard} markp: photomatt
[17:05 on 05/14] {archon} I got a nothing, because it’s free. :P
[17:05 on 05/14] {crw} markp: i was wondering that earlier
[17:05 on 05/14] {markp} ok
[17:05 on 05/14] {markp} hope he shares
[17:05 on 05/14] {laughinglizard} :) he has expenses
[17:05 on 05/14] {markp} i just donated
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[17:43 on 05/14] {markp} site is live
–from the wordpress irc channel
The prominent Mark Pilgrim made the switch today, as have uncountable others. His reasons are here. More impressive is his $535 donation to the project.
They aren’t exactly my reasons, though. I wanted an easily customizable back-end and I wanted to immerse myself in php for the educational aspect. I had other reasons, but those were the main two. MT 3.0 was still in beta when I made the switch, and I hadn’t heard anything with regards to development details, so that had no influence over my decision. It does reaffirm that I made the right one, though.