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The more I read through the history detailed in the complaint, the more sad I become about the state of affairs. I am still on WP Engine's side because I believ

The more I read through the history detailed in the complaint, the more sad I become about the state of affairs. I am still on WP Engine's side because I believe Matt has gone way off track, but on the other hand, it has to be acknowledged that Matt has very selflessly helped grow WordPress into what it is today. The hosting bills for WordPress.org's plugin repository for instance can't be cheap, god knows how they fund it.

JimDabell 2y ago
> The hosting bills for WordPress.org's plugin repository for instance can't be cheap, god knows how they fund it. The CEO of Cloudflare already offered to host it for free: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663 https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663
- Arcuru 2y ago
  Sure now that it's in the news and can give them good PR, but a week ago they weren't the ones paying for it.
  - FireBeyond 2y ago
    You can buy a lot of web hosting for $400M. And with everything here, it also seems like quite a deliberate and calculated move to make sure he personally maintains ownership of WP.org (or else why was it not transferred to the Foundation (also him) when all the trademark stuff was being done?)
- mthoms 2y ago
  Don't celebrate yet. It looks more like he's just trying to help Matt out rather than support the community - https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv Fun fact: WPEngine is a Cloudflare customer. Automattic is not.
justin66 2y ago
"Generously," perhaps, but "selflessly" is a poor way to characterize any of his behavior.
chx 2y ago
They didn't need to fund it, either fastly or cloudflare would've taken it on long ago if they needed to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726759 In 2015 a similar project: https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/drupal.org-migrates-content-and-file-delivery-to-fastly https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/drupal.org-migrates-co...

JimDabell 2y ago

> The hosting bills for WordPress.org's plugin repository for instance can't be cheap, god knows how they fund it. The CEO of Cloudflare already offered to host it for free: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663 https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1841154152006627663

Arcuru 2y ago
Sure now that it's in the news and can give them good PR, but a week ago they weren't the ones paying for it.
- FireBeyond 2y ago
  You can buy a lot of web hosting for $400M. And with everything here, it also seems like quite a deliberate and calculated move to make sure he personally maintains ownership of WP.org (or else why was it not transferred to the Foundation (also him) when all the trademark stuff was being done?)
mthoms 2y ago
Don't celebrate yet. It looks more like he's just trying to help Matt out rather than support the community - https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv https://imgur.com/a/6isRMCv Fun fact: WPEngine is a Cloudflare customer. Automattic is not.

justin66 2y ago

"Generously," perhaps, but "selflessly" is a poor way to characterize any of his behavior.

chx 2y ago

They didn't need to fund it, either fastly or cloudflare would've taken it on long ago if they needed to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726759 In 2015 a similar project: https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/drupal.org-migrates-content-and-file-delivery-to-fastly https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/drupal.org-migrates-co...