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“Matt’s war against WP Engine has been polarizing and upsetting for everyone in WordPress, but most of the WP community has been relatively insulated from any real effects. Putting a loyalty test in the form of a checkmark on the WordPress.org login page has brought the conflict directly to every community member and contributor. Matt is not just forcing everyone to take sides, he is actively telling people to consult attorneys to determine whether or not they should check the box,” the anonymous contributor I spoke to told me. “It is also more than just whether or not you agree to a legally dubious statement to log in. A growing number of active, dedicated community members, many who have no connection with WP Engine, have had their WordPress.org accounts completely disabled with no notice or explanation as to why. No one knows who will be banned next or for what... Whatever Matt’s end goal is, his ‘tactics,’ especially this legally and ethically ambiguous checkbox, are causing a lot of confusion and mental anguish to people around the world.”

This is the sort of behavior that causes irreparable damage to a brand. Psycho.

Based on entries to his personal blog and social media posts, Mullenweg has been on safari in Africa this week. Mullenweg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cherry on top, lmao. Of course he's off doing rich white CEO things.

This whole thing just makes me want to steer clear of wordpress entirely.

I’ve been using WP for personal projects for something like 15 years.

Nothing I’ve ever created has been that big, but I generally liked the tools nonetheless.

But now I think I’m out. I try to adhere to a rule where I don’t support rich weirdos as much as possible, and as such that’s why I use Lemmy to begin with. And don’t buy from Amazon. And don’t use Twitter any more. Etc.

So my next project now will totally be on new software. And hey, maybe I won’t have to use PHP ever again so this could be a win.

I'm out of the loop, what is WP Engine and why is the rich weirdo in control of WordPress being so weird about it?

Luckily I moved to Hugo static site generator 3 years ago.. peweff.. I love PHP, but boy Wordpress was going down hill back then. And still is to this day. Introducing "features" nobody asked for. And at the same time makes your site slow.

I run a WordPress site but I'm not a developer.

It seems like automatticuses the community for free development and profits from it. They in turn develop and support it, heck they created it.

However, with foss its free for WP engine to use and they dont like it. So they are throwing a hissy fit and making out its about the community and giving back. BS.

I assume it will fork.

Fork or CEO getting booted out in 3... 2... 1...

I remember when I thought Matt's awfulness was only going to affect Tumblr, how naive of me

I'd just like to point out that WordPress is GPL, so anyone could do whatever they want with the code, including Auttomatic. If people using the software in a way that, although uncool, is totally something they agreed to, the best bet would be to leave WordPress as-is and spin continued development into a new product with a new license. Would people like it? No. Do people like this, though? Hell no.

I'm gonna start checking out Ghost, at this point. This is ridiculous.

And if Ghost doesn't work, then ClassicPress it is.

Welp I'm done, just started talking to my clients about moving to SquareSpace.

I lived through the time when every other website was a malware farm because of that POS platform.

I don't think there is a single other piece of software that inspire me so much hate as wordpress so I'm really rooting for a complete implosion of anything WP related and that Mullenweg end up forced to sell his body for food in Pattaya.

Haven’t used anything related to Wordpress in 15 years. Seems I’ll make that a permanent decision now.

Do you condemn WordpressEngine?!

You have to check the box to log in if you want to delete your account

So much for the goodwill of fediverse integration.