photomatt

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by photomatt 17y ago
Which of Automattic's services (WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, IntenseDebate, and Polldaddy) do you consider famously insecure?
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by photomatt 17y ago
Last month we got 688,000 new blog posts via XML-RPC, so desktop clients are still meaningful. (XML-RPC API is also used by other folks like Flickr.) APP may be better, I don't have a strong opinion, but it's hardly used and in fact we had
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by photomatt 17y ago
Welcome to the family, Raffi. :)
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by photomatt 17y ago
We do support XMPP! Check it out: http://im.wordpress.com
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by photomatt 17y ago
Wow no reason to be so angry -- it's just some pings going back and forth. There's no need to make it personal. Besides, I've had way worse ideas. We've always planned to have a variety of update notifications available -- the first we did
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by photomatt 17y ago
I agree! This is on the roadmap.
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by photomatt 17y ago
This is fantastic advice -- for many WP blogs I manage I just have them svn update on a cron job nightly.
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by photomatt 17y ago
You should check out "child theme" functionality, which allows you to make lazy changes to the style without modifying any core files, which is highly recommended against.
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by photomatt 17y ago
That's not the issue here -- the worm doesn't require any files to be writable.
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by photomatt 17y ago
WP.com, to my knowledge, has never had a code or security breach. There are communities (like Club Penguin) where they are quite promiscuous with their passwords and share login details with each other regularly, and then "hack" each others
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by photomatt 17y ago
It's been an interesting 6 years. Many attacks we protect against now (XSRF, most types of XSS) were basically unknown then. Some (cryptographic splicing) were popularized by researchers auditing WordPress. A mixed blessing of being popular
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by photomatt 17y ago
Before we can auto-upgrade people we need to figure out how to do so in a way that's fool-proof. Can you imagine the outrage if everyone woke up one morning to broken sites because of an auto-applied update?
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by photomatt 17y ago
You should check out Bloxsom.
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by photomatt 17y ago
It depends on the context people are interacting with the site. A blog is "owned" by the author, and comments are from guests who aren't invested enough in the site to register, but who still make up the core of the community. On a forum, o
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by photomatt 17y ago
Running an online system is a responsibility, one which includes keeping up with vendor updates. Is it possible to run WordPress securely? Absolutely, we do it for 8 million blogs, including some of the most high-target blogs in the world l
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by photomatt 17y ago
Automattic runs WordPress.com, Akismet, Polldaddy, IntenseDebate, Gravatar, and more. Here are our open positions: http://automattic.com/jobs/ And information about how we work, which is a lot like an open source project: http://automatt
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by photomatt 17y ago
:)
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by photomatt 17y ago
There are dozens of successful businesses selling GPL-complaint themes, sometimes in their own directories. There are hundreds of businesses who get some or all of their distribution through WordPress plugins. There are millions of websites
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by photomatt 17y ago
We considered doing a marketplace on WordPress.COM, not .org, which is a big distinction. I don't think a market on .org makes much sense, unless you decide to ignore the GPL.
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by photomatt 17y ago
Automattic isn't unique, we just follow the same Open Source business models everyone else does. We do hosting, and provide extra services. There are at least 1,000 plugins in the directory that do the same thing. There are plugins for Yout
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by photomatt 17y ago
I'd be willing to sponsor this.
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by photomatt 17y ago
I agree, if I'm low on sleep I'm lucky if I can get through email, much less write anything coherent. If I'm not traveling I can usually get a full night and be fine during the day, but sometimes I still overdo lunch (I love food) and shut
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by photomatt 17y ago
Yep. :)
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by photomatt 17y ago
Sometimes, that's why a single song on repeat lets my brain put it in the background.
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by photomatt 17y ago
They asked me to wear headphones for the shoot because it was in an original version of the story, I very rarely use those headphones anymore -- they're more from my in-office days.
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by photomatt 17y ago
Nope.
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by photomatt 17y ago
This is my favorite comment here, ever. :)
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by photomatt 18y ago
Recently switch all of the WordPress.com load balancers to be nginx. They push a little over a gigabit of traffic right now and about half a billion requests per day, no sweat. We use Spread + Wackamole for failover, there's more info on Ba
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by photomatt 19y ago
Akismet doesn't use Bayesian filtering.