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by pluc 2y ago
"I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate", proceeds to insult the guy in every paragraph
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by pluc 2y ago
Seriously he needs to really weigh shutting the fuck up instead of doing this pointless arguing. WPEngine haven't said a thing and have gotten all the support because he keeps digging this hole. Hopefully the consequences of his action
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by pluc 2y ago
Delicious Brains' stuff was obviously going to make the list as they're another WPEngine acquisition. No idea what's the deal with the others though.
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by pluc 2y ago
This was engineered and deliberate, they were never gonna let WPEngine have their space back. We called this a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751856
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by pluc 2y ago
"You don't agree with what I'm about to post? Here's a severance check."
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by pluc 2y ago
Got a call today from a client I hadn't heard from in 5 years. They use ACF, they use another plugin that WPEngine acquired to move their uploaded files to S3. They're freaking out at all this and worried about how the next thing
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by pluc 2y ago
Not only that, but he's taken over all their customers as well if the update source was wordpress.org.
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by pluc 2y ago
There's a pretty great movie about this story; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf
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by pluc 2y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg... https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-dra...
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by pluc 2y ago
The post this leads to just reeks of influencer/devrel marketing-speak. Show something then be cocky about it, not the other way around. And how can Automattic be convincingly 'proud to announce' this fork, when this fork lit
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by pluc 2y ago
god this is cringe over cringe
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by pluc 2y ago
They've already made their argument: WordPress.org has nothing to do with WordPress, Automattic or the WordPress Foundation. It's owned and operated by Matt privately solely out of the kindness of his heart and his love for open-s
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by pluc 2y ago
I mean he already made sure his entire company were entirely yes-men who agreed with his behaviour. It's not a stretch to say he'd like to do the same with the community, especially given his actions of basically begging WPEngine
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by pluc 2y ago
Technology that renders effort and research pointless makes people lazy and stupid, story at 11
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by pluc 2y ago
https://imgur.com/a/OIB65Ro (Copied from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753687 )
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by pluc 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751776
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by pluc 2y ago
Everyone relies on those servers. That's how WordPress ships. There is no way to make it use other servers and WordPress is an otherwise very flexible platform; it benefits from centralizing all of that as illustrated by the way it&#
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by pluc 2y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg...
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by pluc 2y ago
He's already forced them to create an alternative store with their plugins so they can be used on WPEngine. Now he will force a split between the official version, hosted on WPEngine and the one hosted on WordPress.org. Misrepresenting
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by pluc 2y ago
This is turning out to be a really bad Christmas gift.
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by pluc 2y ago
Because with what you are asking WPEngine, that will be the result. Other hosts will follow to not be taken hostage by your opinions. So if WPEngine creates another repository for their customers and the very popular plugins they acquired,
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by pluc 2y ago
You think that's very doable in 72hrs? Can you provide documentation? Do you think that's a reasonable delay to do this thing that's never been done before?
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by pluc 2y ago
How would one replicate privately the entire WordPress.org infrastructure, from plugins and theme hosting and updates, core storage and update calls? Can you point to any documentation that would allow WPEngine or any other host to stop usi
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by pluc 2y ago
None of that is documented, if it's even supported at all. Beyond using network trickery to reverse-engineer API calls, I don't see how it can be expected that it should already be in place. Does Matt really want to risk creating
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by pluc 2y ago
Goddamn, that's embarrassing.
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by pluc 2y ago
There will be a whole industry of people who fix what AI has created. I don't know if it will be faster to build the wrong thing and pay to have it fixed or to build the right thing from the get go, but after having seen some shit, lik
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by pluc 2y ago
Altman Intelligence Inc.
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by pluc 2y ago
This is such a pathetic attempt. The exhibits even includes someone saying "hey maybe you should use items where WPEngine itself refers as WordPress engine" (twice!) and you obviously won't find that... so they're going
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by pluc 2y ago
WordPress has the same problem as PHP: it's too easy to do what you want the wrong way. The right way is great, but the wrong way is easier, cheaper, more common, more documented, etc.
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by pluc 2y ago
There's a widget on the default WordPress dashboard that displays a RSS feed of WordPress.org, where Matt posted his rant, making it show up everywhere.

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