The board needs to oust the CEO.
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.
I assume people will actually leave to other platforms, maybe Ghost, maybe Hugo or Jekyll.
I think not even Automattic so much as Matt is the one mad about WP Engine. Maybe a few others there more closely involved with the code. Almost a decade ago I tried out for a support role there. Most people seemed pretty chill but he struck me as a bit odd (not that I interacted with him but I was present for a few company All Hands).
Are you now, or have you ever been… a WP Engine customer?
Nope. I have used WordPress on a blog or two, but I didn’t know what WP Engine was until a couple of weeks ago.
Do you condemn WordpressEngine?!
Condemn, renounce AND denounce !
They make bank off open source, undermine the business model of the company that does most of the development while only giving back minor contributions back.
** Church organ music intensifies…
"I do renounce him."Priest: and all his works?
"I do renounce them."
You have to check the box to log in if you want to delete your account
Haven’t used anything related to Wordpress in 15 years. Seems I’ll make that a permanent decision now.
Where’s Snoop when you need her?
I’m gonna start checking out Ghost, at this point. This is ridiculous.
And if Ghost doesn’t work, then ClassicPress it is.
This whole thing just makes me want to steer clear of wordpress entirely.
I’m not sure what in the history of WordPress would have encouraged anyone to do otherwise.
The efficient and clean code? /s
We’re pressing words here. I can’t think of a way to do that without a mangled heap of PHP, can you?
For me, I love the generic outdated home page navigation bar with the terrible default font that nobody changes before publishing.
So much for the goodwill of fediverse integration.
I remember when I thought Matt’s awfulness was only going to affect Tumblr, how naive of me
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?
WordPress is open source, there’s a foundation and stuff. The Matt Mullenweg, the guy that started the software and CEO of Automatic (which is the main company) is super upset that WP Engine (another company) is using the software without contributing much to the foundation.
I mean it’s a valid gripe, but there’s not much anyone can do about it. But Matt Mullenweg is, like you say, being super weird about it.
Wp engine can go fuck itself
Agreed, but so can Matt Mullenweg and Automattic
Welp I’m done, just started talking to my clients about moving to SquareSpace.
Imagine thinking moving from a FOSS self-hosted software to proprietary SaaS shit is an upgrade lmao
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.
The GPL is not a “whatever” license.
“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.
What a weird thing to do! They can sue each other until the cows come home for all I care but dragging the community into it like this comes off as petty imo. Musky even.
I mean sometimes people decide they don’t want their websites to be used. The best option is to agree and move on.
i did just that a few minutes ago. closed my account and removed my one Plugin from the repo. if the statistics in wordpress.org are correct it was used by ~20k sites (though that number is hard to believe and seemed way too large for the usw case for a long time). It can still be found in github but will no longer get any updates since I haven’t used wordpress myself for quite some time and with the current shitstorm i don’t see a reason to invest any time in it.
