Re: [VOTE] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net

On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM Roman Pronskiy <roman@pronskiy.com> wrote: > And they argue against the RFC, not for it. > > PSF still on X with 2x more followers -- that's exactly the case for > staying. X-wide engagement has changed: different algorithm, different > audience, different content. That's not "the platform is worse", > that's "the platform is different". Lower engagement per post doesn't > mean lower value if followers and reach are still there. This reads very LLM generated, so it's hard to take this seriously. > And these aren't isolated cases. TypeScript, Go, the Apache > Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and many others actively communicate > on X. The pattern across language and OSS communities is presence, not > retreat. As someone in the Linux ecosystem I can list big community run projects that did leave X. Like Debian, KDE, GNOME. I think PHP as a community run project should follow these steps, not corporate run projects or projects heavily backed by corporations. -- Cheers Ilya