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Joost de Valk
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Joost de Valk writes Joost.blog, a personal blog at joost.blog about web, business and ai. Since 2019, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Breaking the Status Quo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Joost de Valk, creator of Yoast SEO, on WordPress leadership and CMS market share. HN commenters cite them in discussions of the Matt Mullenweg account bans and WordPress's market position.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Joost de Valk - internet entrepreneur, Group Head of AI & Growth at Your.Online, founder of Yoast
Most-linked posts?
- Breaking the Status Quo8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-12-20
- WordPress Market Share Update: 33%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-28
- Do You Need a CMS?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-21
- CMS Market Share Analysis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21
What Hacker News says?
They never claimed to be starting a fork (at least not yet)[0]. They only called for reform to the existing governance structures.[1] Matt Mullenweg painted it as a fork to suit his narrative and pre-emptively poison the well (by implying they are incompetent) of a potential future fork.[2] He's done that a couple times now. He claims to support forks and says "I'll even promote them on WordPress.org" (paraphrase) b…
Comment linking /wordpress-leadership/
on “Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork”Submitted WordPress’ market share is shrinking as a story · 262 points
HN discussion> None of the banned people mentioned a fork Steady on, at least one of them wrote a big blog post on his own site Dec 20 basically prematurely accepting the honour. https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/ I can imagine the excessive smugness there about 'taking back the commons' triggered the purge.
Comment linking /wordpress-leadership/
on “WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork”Submitted The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure as a story · 210 points
HN discussionThanks this is helpful, and your response tells me a lot of why some people don't want to use it anymore. It's still massive though https://joost.blog/cms-market-share/
Comment linking /cms-market-share/
on “Ask HN: What's Wrong with WordPress?”Submitted Breaking the Status Quo as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFor context, Joost de Valk is the original creator of Yoast SEO — an extremely popular SEO plugin for WordPress. He's also one of the people Matt Mullenweg banned from WordPress.org on January 11th for "starting a fork" (which wasn't something that was currently happening) [0]. Post Status is a WordPress business community which de Valk just acquired, and is going to be turning into a non-profit with an advisory boa…
Comment linking /wordpress-leadership/
on “Ringing the Bell for Our Own Acquisition”Submitted Breaking the Status Quo – A vision for a new WordPress era as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A vision for a new WordPress era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transparency, Contribution, and the Future of WordPress as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost nobody gets XML sitemaps right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Block the Abuse, Not the Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress needs to refactor, not redecorate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Astro SEO Guide – From Yoast SEO Founder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A vision for a new WordPress era as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress Market Share Update: 33% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When code costs nothing to generate, open source is the only defensible moat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of the Website as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I made my skills update themselves as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do You Need a CMS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do You Need a CMS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fair, WordPress, and Knowing When to Stop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fair, WordPress, and Knowing When to Stop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a healthy GitHub repository as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CMS Market Share Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CMS market share: a numbers analysis as a story · 1 points
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