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| | If you are even remotely connected to the WordPress community, and unless you have been living under a rock, or off the grid, you know that since the closing keynote of WordCamp US last week, there's been a lot of turmoil. As it is unfortunately often the case in our era where information is cheap,...
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| | Over the course of the last few weeks, Matt Mullenweg has launched into a crusade against a wordpress hosting company - WP Engine. In the course of this crusade he's made some extremely questionable decisions with a worrying disregard for the consequences of throwing Wordpress users under the bus. In this post I talk about the effects that that can have
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| | [AI summary] The article argues that the WordPress community needs to break its current governance status quo involving founder Matt Mullenweg due to risks to the supply chain and a shift away from open-source ideals, suggesting the project may need to be forked or reshuffled under a new structure like the Linux Foundation.
| | anderegg.ca
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| Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker - a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that's going on. It should be noted that many sites are leaving for Pressable - owned by Mullenweg's company, Automattic -because of a sweetheart deal.