shevekofurras

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   by shevekofurras 2y ago

   > he CREATED Wordpress No he didn't. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked Michel Valdrighi's b2 cafeblog in 2003 to add new features and an admin panel. Wordpress is GPL because b2 was GPL. Matt built most of the early XHTML w
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   by shevekofurras 2y ago

   The username is changed but the comments remain attached to a single different name.
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   by shevekofurras 2y ago

   You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random username. Yes this violates any EU citizen's right to be forgotten
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   by shevekofurras 2y ago

   Thanks for writing this. It matches my experience 100%. I just signed up to comment because I know people will desperately want it to not be true but there are plenty of us ex-mervilles folk out there who've experienced the cult elemen