Reasonable. I do disagree with the ACF redirect, but not cloning it. That was a dumb move. Also, could have been an open letter to the community or something, not the quick (seemingly) retaliatory moves

It’s like Nestle taking water and selling it for profit. Except, this watering hole was built and maintained by everyone. Now, we all have to do more work to build and maintain, so Nestle can take more water. Matt, the guy who kinda invited everyone to the watering hole, is like “they gotta help maintain this watering hole, obviously!”

That’s how I see it exactly. Matt, as one of few people in the world with the voice and reach to do so, is trying to protect and help support the WordPress ecosystem.

Let’s not forget to follow the money, obviously WPE and Silver lake are going to do everything in their power to make him, and by association, anything he’s a part of, look like the bad guy.

The embedded tooth really does it for me

Bunch of great points, thanks. Funny you mention Linus, I’m pretty sure he’s done that a bunch. First thing that comes to mind is the “f*** you Nvidia” on stage 😂 in the grand scheme of things I just hope this blows over quickly, takes power away from all the ceos and companies involved. I don’t see anyone benefitting from this in the short or long term, especially the users.

I really don’t want WordPress to suffer, I feel like it’s one of the last pillars standing against a bland sea of identical social media profiles. Given enough time, completely unchecked, I see WP Engine moving heavily towards enshitification like that, and I think Matt wants to avoid that too? 🙏

I completely agree that individuals have no responsibility to contribute, and thank you for your own contributions. But I completely disagree that a company like WP Engine should get a free pass. I see this as a paradox of tolerance and someone is willing to lose face and money over it. He didn’t get to $400m by hording, he got there by creating and sharing WordPress and promoting a community that is supposed to lift us all up

We know the author, can’t be too hard to figure out :)

Happy birthday! 🥳🎂

This screams to me, thank you

No! All my for loops!!!

Feels like they want it to fail sometimes

My cat didn’t start walking around for months, it’s a lot to take in at first, they’ll take it slow

The ritual of chud

Chicken and egg

Be your own main character

Gross

It was also fairly easy to disable

Good ingredient in a clam chowder 🤤

Yass and when I’m walking into the store I always offer to take a cart for someone walking theirs back, if such a person is within hailing distance.

Firefox personally, Arc for work