Sat
Jan
26
2008
xPattern - A Community Driven Textpattern Fork
After way too long, a few members of the Textpattern community have decided to set off down our own path and make the improvements to Textpattern that users have been wanting for years. Enter xPattern. It is a fork of the Textpattern 4.0 development branch that is hosted on LaunchPad.
xPattern started as a way for Textpattern community members to give back and help speed along the development progress. The devs flat out rejected our requests and we have broken away. The Textpattern forum posts mentioning the xPattern discussions have either been locked or deleted. Censorship has been a common practice on the Textpattern forums for the past few years. The most recent victim was the thread xPattern – Your Questions Answered. I posted it over to the xPattern forum shortly before it was deleted. It answers many questions raised by Textpattern community members and was created to serve as a centralized discussion thread to prevent spill over.
Edit:
Since Peter over at Txpq.com felt the need to use this post as the basis for a personal attack against me. I feel I should add a little bit more to the picture. For starters, this is a blog that show a snapshot of me and what I’m feeling. (Even the plugins I release are snapshots.) If you find something I write to be offensive, incorrect or really interested, it will not change how I felt at the time of writing. If you like it, cool. If you don’t, too bad. You always have the option of not returning.
IRC logs from the other day. It is easy to think a thread is deleted when it is silently moved from one area of the forum to another. It was originally in “Latest Happenings”.
Manfre: i didn’t see it there yesterday
other person: you think she brought it back after deleting it in a fit of rage?
Manfre: not sure
Manfre: it’s possible that I overlooked it
On the bright side, textpattern now has an equivalent to FOX news. I guess that means it is moving up in the world.
If only there were some examples (2 3 4) of how censorship is abused on the textpattern forums. BTW, silencing discussion is censorship. For obvious reasons, I can’t link to deleted threads.
Comment
I’m glad you express the way you feel but we can all say things we regret sometimes, and if you don’t regret what I mentioned in the article, then I have failed. You appear to be leading xPattern (at least you wrote Your Questions Answered) and what you say reflects on what you are doing and the other members of your group. Some others have explained things really well, and what they feel about the fork, but some including you have not been so clear and honest with yourselves, and it seems from your comment that you don’t care.
I hope I am wrong and you have a heart of gold and just got carried away with enthusiasm. If that is the case I wish you every success and I will support you like I support the TXP devs. Truth survives despite everything and will shine through so I hope you find it.
