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‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The board needs to oust the CEO.

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 2 months ago

I assume people will actually leave to other platforms, maybe Ghost, maybe Hugo or Jekyll.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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).