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There's possible context (unknown veracity) from this comment 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416

by _hmry 2y ago

There's possible context (unknown veracity) from this comment 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406

cldellow 2y ago
I don't use WP Engine or WordPress, so I don't have a side in this fight. As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me. @photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]" If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context. [5135]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174 https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174
- mthoms 2y ago
  Meanwhile, right now over on Reddit there are WordPress Core developers posting about this anonymously for fear of retaliation from Matt. He has... a bit of reputation.
ufmace 2y ago
That, and the whole thing about Matt M going on a scathing rant about how bad WPEngine supposedly is[0], supposedly because they don't support WP page revision control as well as he'd like. Seems a bit over-the-top and breathless to me. I figure the whole thing is a corporate whine-fest over who makes more money from actually hosting Wordpress sites. [0] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/ https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/
x0x0 2y ago
Seems unlikely though? Matt wrote a post on the web, ie he had unlimited length available to him. If the dispute is over employee contributions, then he should have made that the focus of his complaint.

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There's possible context (unknown veracity) from this comment 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416

by _hmry 2y ago

There's possible context (unknown veracity) from this comment 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614406

cldellow 2y ago
I don't use WP Engine or WordPress, so I don't have a side in this fight. As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me. @photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]" If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context. [5135]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174 https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174
- mthoms 2y ago
  Meanwhile, right now over on Reddit there are WordPress Core developers posting about this anonymously for fear of retaliation from Matt. He has... a bit of reputation.
ufmace 2y ago
That, and the whole thing about Matt M going on a scathing rant about how bad WPEngine supposedly is[0], supposedly because they don't support WP page revision control as well as he'd like. Seems a bit over-the-top and breathless to me. I figure the whole thing is a corporate whine-fest over who makes more money from actually hosting Wordpress sites. [0] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/ https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/
x0x0 2y ago
Seems unlikely though? Matt wrote a post on the web, ie he had unlimited length available to him. If the dispute is over employee contributions, then he should have made that the focus of his complaint.