Contributors are losing their shit in the WordPress open-source slack. In order to contribute, you have to promise you aren't "affiliated" with WP Engine.
Matt Mullenweg has gotten real Elon Musk here.
I suspect we'll end up seeing a hard fork that's entirely community-driven rather than owned by a company. It's happened before - for example, Libreoffice was forked from OpenOffice .org when Sun Microsystems owned it.
God, I hope so. WP needs to shift focus away from Gutenberg and fix the horrendous backend. It desperately needs an ORM and a sane router.
WPEngine has been trash for a few years now but this felt like a weird way to handle it, I don't love that they gobbled up ACF and DeliciousBrains and slowly began enshittifying their products which do feel almost necessary to core
This whole drama makes me wonder if it's only a matter of time till I have to migrate my company away from WordPress.
Man, fuck matt mullenweg
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