This is a guy who should have just went to vegas and bought a expensive escort for his mid life crisis.
For those who haven’t been following this epic meltdown
As if people didn’t Clone Wordpress already, let’s call it BlogPrint
I don’t get the logic of cutting off contributions of any kind unless they were actively sabotaging the projector something. Seems like that just makes the fork basically a guarantee. And in open source, a fork that discourages community is always going to be at a disadvantage.
Wonder how pissy he’s gonna be when the project is forked and everyone leaves the original.
159 have left since Matt’s cheese slide off his cracker
My dislike of Wordpress is being validated every day
Why are you hating on WordPress ?
See the article
But why WordPress itself
Bad impression of their development environment and business practices
If anyone wants to see it from the hours mouth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt
That’s him.
horse
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Sounds like a spoiled child
Trump’s disease is spreading.
They weren’t even planning to create a fork.
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Matt said his company was going to all but stop contributing to WordPress for now out of spite against WPEngine https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/
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These people said “OK we’ll take responsibility for the next release within the current WordPress organization framework so that work can continue”
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Matt said nuh-nuh, no you aren’t https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/
Basically Matt interpreted their “we’re going to take over work within Wordpress since Matt abandoned it” as “we’re taking over Wordpress from Matt” and is telling them through some tortured rhetoric “you aren’t Wordpress, I’m Wordpress, you go do it in a fork instead”
Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.
The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.
It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.
But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.
He certainly seems to be labouring under the mistaken impression that he’s a business genius.
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Speaks at Disrupt
People try to disrupt his profit
“No you can’t do that”
Who disrupts the disrupters?
Starfleet Intelligence
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just filing this away…
… t… u… v… w… x… woops. back up.
w.
there we go.
right before xfree86 in the file of forgotten projects that fucked-up big, and lost.
I can’t access the link. who is he?
The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:
- Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
- Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
- Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
- Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
- Acted like
an absolute fucking buffoonthe innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.
The sad thing is that at the beginning he had a little tiny bit of justification for not liking what WP Engine was doing.
What WP Engine was doing was completely legal. They were completely following the requirements of the WordPress license. But, it was true that they could have done more to benefit the WordPress community. Instead, they were building a huge, quarter-billion dollar business based on WordPress without either helping pay for its development or contributing meaningful code themselves.
A competent project leader could have used the goodwill they’d amassed over decades to mount a subtle pressure campaign to get WP Engine to do more. But, instead, his approach has somehow made a private equity backed for-profit company to almost appear to be the “good guy” in this fight.
Technically, WordPress started as a fork.
He’s a co-creator of WordPress and (my opinion) a total knob.
With what I have now seen about him, I would be quite inclined to agree.
An asshole
remember when matt publically attacked a trans woman on twitter because she called him out about his transphobia
Hopefully he explodes with hammers and hammers go flying everywhere
I do not, source?
Not that I don’t believe you, but if we’re gonna hate on this guy even more, we should make sure it’s for facts.
Yeah fuck that guy.
100% switching to whatever the fork ends up being.
So does anyone know if the fork has been implemented or not?
