Latest in Wordpress Drama
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404 Media ☛ Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
“It became clear a good chunk of my Automattic colleagues disagreed with me and our actions,” he wrote on his personal blog on Oct. 3, referring to the ongoing dispute between himself and website hosting platform WP Engine, which Mullenweg called a “cancer to WordPress” and accusing WP Engine of “strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem. In the last month, he and WP Engine have volleyed cease and desist letters, and WP Engine is now suing Automattic, accusing Mullenweg of extortion and abuse of power.
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Marty Day ☛ blast-o-rama.
What an absolute mess. Feeling all the happier I moved everything to Micro.blog earlier this year.
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Jim Mitchell ☛ Still More WordPress Drama
The whole drama is like a freeway pileup I just can’t look away from…
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Dan Q ☛ WordStress
Ugh, I’ve had enough of the WordPress community drama that’s going on right now. I appreciate that I’ve contributed and amplified, and you can call me a hypocrite if you like, but sometimes you just need to step away and get on with things.
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From their official site:
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WordPress ☛ WordPress Thanks Salesfarce
In the midst of our legal battles with Silver Lake and WP Engine, I wanted to take a moment to highlight something positive. Because of my friendships with the co-founders of Slack, Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, WordPress.org has had a free version of the Pro version of Slack since they started in 2009.
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WordPress ☛ WP Engine Promotions & Coupons [Ed: Microsoft-connected VC attacking WordPress]
Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of hosts have created specials and promotions for WP Engine customers looking to migrate to a host that has great relations with WordPress.org.
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