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Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
- mrcwinn 7d agoThis is fantastic news. Matt is an ass and unfit to lead a small HOA, let alone a company and open source project.
- mstkllah 6d agoHearing stories about HOA as a non-US person I think he is actually quite suited leading one.
- ramon156 7d agoReminds me of the first season of Succession
- Shank 7d ago> “And the biggest news: I won't be able to make the ELT tomorrow,” Matt wrote in an Announcement Slack. He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.” If you’re doing this type of accusation in the company wide announcements channel, odds are you’re never coming back. A board coup rarely happens without a good reason, but a “leave of absence” isn’t a firing. It’s still pretty bad, but it’s not a firing. However, crashing out and waging war on the board will lead to that outcome.
- SaltyBackendGuy 7d agoIn recent memory of companies I've worked for, even the absolute WORST executives haven't gotten fired. They always announce that "it's time for another adventure" or "I am taking a break". So I am not shocked they didn't fire him, although the board is now probably wishing they did.
- datakan 7d agoHad a President make a big ordeal about leaving "for health reasons". His LinkedIn had him at a new company within a couple months doing the same thing. Had a CISO leave for "personal" reasons. Talked to him a couple years later and yeah, he was fired. Steal 20$ out of a cash register and make the local news. Waste a billion dollars at a corp and make insane decisions and ride out on a golden parachute. Its a fucked up world.
- actionfromafar 7d agoAh, but they take the big risks, you see. Someone has to do it.
- gottorf 7d agoIn fairness, I don't think stealing $20 makes the local news these days, unless you live in a town of 300 people. There's a lot of antisocial behavior that goes unreported. But moreover: I guess there's a presumption, whether fair or not, that well-paid executives overseen by wealthy boards of directors are pre-vetted and act in good faith, whether or not those actions pan out and make money; versus robbery or violent crime that people recoil from, that assumption of good faith isn't there, because it's self-evident to ordinary people that there is no justification for such actions.
- consp 7d agoI would argue there is a broad difference in ethicality and reason between the bottom and top of the food chain, making these examples less clear cut. If your plan as a low level employee doesn't work out you still get fired and the consequences are far greater.
- _fw 7d agoI briefly worked in the web agency SaaS space and hoooo boy, I have never known a more gossipy or dramatic industry. That’s not to pass comment either way on Mullenweg It’s just WordPress folk are nuts.
- hermitcrab 7d ago>Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.” What is wrong with these people?
- wmf 7d agoThat's how you can tell the article isn't giving you the full picture.
- gkoberger 7d agoI was curious what this meant, so I looked into it. They asked Automatic.css to change their name: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1omrtrk/automattic_wants_a_popular_framework_called/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1omrtrk/automatt... Automatic.css is a paid CSS framework specifically for WordPress. Legally speaking I have no opinion here, but I don't think it's as out-of-pocket as it sounds.
- hermitcrab 7d agoThe article linked ( https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-mullenweg-kevin-geary/ https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-... ) is behind a paywall. But reading https://www.searchenginejournal.com/automattic-disputes-use-of-word-automatic-for-wordpress-product/560353/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/automattic-disputes-use-... it sounds like the claim 'Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic"' might not be accurate.
- notahacker 7d agoYeah, regardless of other aspects of Automattic's behaviour, flagging that an identically-pronounced single letter variation of their registered company name might be a confusingly similar brand for a third party commercial service specifically designed to customise Automattic's product to adopt seems to be at the reasonable end of trademark disputes...
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- bellowsgulch 7d agoGood, get him the fuck away from Wordpress. Though frankly, a better solution might be for businesses to ask themselves whether or not they need Wordpress anymore. In the mean time, if you're unable to derisk Mullenweg out of your business stack, this is a good first step.
- SwellJoe 7d agoWordPress dominance of the web has certainly peaked, but history indicates there will be several years in which to continue to extract comfortable profits while riding it down. e.g. Oracle, a database that almost no business has actually needed in decades.
- pathartl 7d agoI'm not convinced that sort of legacy lock in exists in the web space. It moves fast and its value is in the content. In the age of AI, migrating that data makes it trivial to move away from a risky platform. I cut my development teeth on WP and managed some fairly large sites. There are far more interesting and well developed alternatives out there.
- SwellJoe 7d agoSure, but, even with AI and the technical competence to steer it, it's still a pretty big lift to switch from, e.g. WordPress with billing and various other stuff to some ad hoc other thing. Even when I decided I was done with managing content in WordPress and moved it out to a Hugo static site for my company website, I still kept the commerce stuff in WordPress just because it works and we know it works from a decade or so of operation. I'm certainly not deploying new WordPress sites, partly because of how weird and hostile Mullenweg has made the WordPress ecosystem for no good reason. I don't even necessarily disagree with the sentiments behind his words and actions, but the methods and how far it's gone in terms of lawfare is just silly and destructive. Anyway, they won't get decades like Oracle has gotten. But, they've got a few years of comfy margins ahead if they don't blow it up too badly.
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- gkoberger 7d agoUnfortunately, this is for the best. WordPress powers a large percentage of the internet, and I'm not sure what's going on with Matt (who I've always liked) but something turned the past few years. He's been behind unforced error after unforced error as CEO, and I hope a break helps him gain some perspective (although I don't see him being brought back). WordPress has been his life for 23 years. Doing the same thing for 23 years likely makes it difficult to have a proper perspective.
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- nosioptar 7d agoClassicpress may be worth checking out. https://www.classicpress.net/ https://www.classicpress.net/
- biglyburrito 7d ago"Unfortunately"??
- gpm 7d agoYeah, it's unfortunate when anyone goes off the deep end.
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- gkoberger 7d ago"Unfortunately", because Matt did a lot of good for the internet over the past two decades. WordCamp is (or was) really amazing, the community he built is really great, the Automattic Lounge was cool, he's donated millions of dollars to good causes, and WordPress powers a large portion of the Internet.
- dcrazy 7d agoI guess when people vote the same way, it’s technically a conspiracy?
- biglyburrito 7d agoNo, it's called "voting".
- dcrazy 7d agoThat was my point. My sarcasm mustn’t have come through.
- antonvs 7d agoNo, a conspiracy would require that they all got together in secret to plan to vote that way. Which is hardly necessary in a case like this.
- garbagepatch 7d agoHere is the whole saga until May 2025: https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...
- pluc 7d agohttps://mullenweg.wtf/ https://mullenweg.wtf/ picked up after that
- adrienne 7d agoHey, that's me! Unfortunately that's only reasonably complete through mid-February of 2025; i had some health issues and was never able to catch back up.
- classictraffic 7d agoHope you’re doing better these days!
- graemep 7d agoThat lead me to a number of good sources, especially this: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/24/automattic-vs-wp-engine/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/24/automattic-vs-wp-engine/ which links to a lot more I already knew Matt was throwing a tantrum and refusing to address conflicts of interest. However WP Engine also do not come out of it looking good. Nor do a lot of people in the WP community. Matt is a problem, but it does not look like he is the only problem.
- solarkraft 7d agoI’m a bit relieved. Only knowing it superficially through its larger public actions, Automattic used to be one of the “good guys” companies to me. I envisioned myself applying there at some point. This has obviously changed over the last 1-2 years. I don’t doubt that the good parts were largely Matt’s work, but well ... I think a lot of us followed his semi-recent public actions. I’m a bit surprised they didn’t pull the plug earlier given they could have. Hasn’t he already caused vast damage? Still, he has done a lot of good for the internet and world at large. I don’t want to discount that. I just hope he manages to chill a bit.
- ValentineC 7d agoI'm shocked. I always thought that Matt held the majority of the voting shares, and that the board of directors was mostly there as a rubber stamp.
- ojame 7d agoVoting shares and board of directors are two different mechanisms. Just because he holds 80%+ of voting shares, doesn't mean he can control who runs the company. Shareholders can make up (elect/remove) directors on the board, the board decides who can run the company (or other officials). His vote against was likely true, but if the board is 4 seats and he only has one vote, that's 25%. A lot of this is pretty typical, but what's interesting is what happens next. He could just remove members of the board with his 80%+ control, and build a board that backs him. I assume they have investor agreements that prevent that.
- angry_octet 7d agoRegardless of who he puts on the board, directors have legal obligations to the SEC and all shareholders. If he wants that level of control he would need to take the company private, and various investor agreements probably prevent this.
- Onavo 7d ago> If he wants that level of control he would need to take the company private, and various investor agreements probably prevent this. Since when was Automatic a public listed company?
- angry_octet 7d agoI should have said: establish sole ownership.
- gkanai 7d agoIt is not. They did take VC funding however, which is when the board and the investor agreements came into force.
- ChoosesBarbecue 7d agoI am so curious why now, what changed? The WPEngine saga was started two years ago.
- minimaxir 7d agoIt never ended.
- ChoosesBarbecue 7d agoTouché, reworded it to be clearer on what I meant :).
- nikcub 7d agofrom my own observations: a) you don't want the WPEngine case going to trial and that is coming to a decision point soon. chances are the new CEO and board settle. b) wordpress is being absolutely obliterated by ai. work for commercial plugin authors and agencies has dried up while the platform and ecosystem see major security issues and worms exploit a large number of sites every week. wordpress and automattic haven't responded to this well, at all. at times it is often straight denial. founder CEO distracted by expensive lawsuit while facing existential threat to project that will require complete attention and a lot of skill to steer out of
- gpm 7d agoHow is the WPEngine case going anyways? Glancing at the docket [1] in an attempt to answer this myself... looks like the trial is scheduled for a bit over a year from now [2].. A ton of fighting over discovery... a motion asking for fairly monster sanctions for spoilation of evidence [3] (to be argued on the 30th). Claiming in [3] with what appear to be pretty solid receipts (as far as we can see through the redactions anyways) that Matt was willfully destroying communications related to the case and subject to the discovery - and Automattic's lawyers lied to the court that they preserved them (naturally Automattic's lawyers have a reply with an entirely different interpretation of events if you go look for it... but at least at a glance WPEngine seems more convincing). [1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/wpengine-inc-v-automattic-inc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/wpengine-inc-v... [2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.371.2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... [3] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.357.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...
- reticulates 7d agoI think it is easy to underestimate how big of a deal this is. Matt has a stranglehold on Automattic and Wordpress, it is not possible to remove his control over the ecosystem and he is volatile. Ousting him as CEO is almost certain to cause a major reaction from Matt, so, for Automattic to make this decision is a very big deal. The right decision for the long term but the hard decision. I expect we will see Matt try to punish Automattic’s board, it will get worse for Automattic before it gets better. Here is Matt talking about his control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657150
- pluc 7d agoI'd definitely take away his access having seen how vindictive he has been throughout the WPE saga, for everyone's sake
- Spinfusor 7d agoIf he has 84% voting share, can't he just fire the board?
- chris_wot 7d agoIf Mullenweg attempts to fire the board that just suspended him, he would be weaponizing proxy votes against the very investors who originally granted them. While founder proxies are often structured to be irrevocable, using them to purge the board would almost certainly trigger a massive legal battle, attempts by investors to breach or revoke the proxy agreements, and severe financial instability for the company. While he technically holds the votes required to disband the board, executing that move would ignite a corporate civil war rather than a clean transition of power.
- FreakLegion 7d ago> While he technically holds the votes required to disband the board This is very unlikely. True Ventures almost certainly controls at least one seat. (Until Phil Black left last year they actually held two seats, but that doesn't mean they had the right to. Either way, at the moment it's just Toni Schneider.)
- tibbydudeza 7d agoFinally.
- 0xDEADBEEFCAFE 7d agoAnyone could have forked WordPress at any time or spun up their own multi tenant instances if they were truly concerned, this just seems personal. It’s a bad day for founders IMO.
- minimaxir 7d agoThe entire saga started due to WP Engine "forking" WordPress.
- 0xDEADBEEFCAFE 7d agoSo problem solved? My only criticism is that 1) Mr. Mullenweg should have held tighter controls over the IP and 2) the direction to the community that they are encouraged to use "WP" as a prefix for their business names and products was ultimately a bad one leading to this mess..
- nixosbestos 7d agoMatt, ... just log out and take a break.
- garbagepatch 7d agoMatt, you shouldn't have picked a FLOSS license if you didn't intend for the software to be FLOSS in the first place.
- sehansen 6d agoIf they'd done those two things Wordpress would probably have been far less successful. Which certainly is a way of making WP Engine not even want to do what they did. Heck, they would probably not even exist.
- kmeisthax 7d agoWP Engine's "forking" consisted of disabling the revisions feature by default. As someone who's personally been bitten by this particular WP Engine misfeature, describing this as a "fork" is disingenuous at best. The average Linux distro ships way more out-of-tree changes than WP Engine ever did.
- echoangle 7d ago> Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.” Real austin powers vibes > He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.
- variaga 7d agoIt's a little less dramatic than that. They did send a demand letter to automatic.css saying that since 'automatic' and 'automattic' differ by only one letter, are pronounced the same, and are marketed to similar groups the name is likely to cause confusion, hence automatic.css should change its name. Which is not the same thing as claiming the word automatic generally. Personally it sounds like a loser if they took it to court since (a) automatic is a common word and (b) they already asked automatic.css to add a "not affiliated with word press" disclaimer (which automatic.css did add). IANAL.
- ifahimreza 7d agothey own automatic.com right?
- josefritzishere 7d agoThe best line was buried at the bottom. Did Automattic really attempt to claim it owns the word “automatic?
- Freak_NL 7d agoThis is better explained elsewhere in this thread, but it boils down to a totally valid trademark dispute over a company calling itself Automatic.css which supplies services for WordPress installs.
- chris_wot 7d agoThis is likely how they pull out of the disasterous legal actions Mullenweg has taken.
- pier25 7d agoIt's impressive this took so long.
- InsideOutSanta 7d agoI had the opposite thought: I'm impressed the board did anything at all, given how useless they are at most companies.
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- bedroom_jabroni 7d agoQuick, somebody back up the WP Plugins repository.
- CqtGLRGcukpy 7d agoBypass paywall at either https://web.archive.org/web/20260909213058/https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260909213058/https://www.404me... or https://archive.ph/7J5TB https://archive.ph/7J5TB. https://www.theverge.com/tech/993022/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-leave-of-absence https://www.theverge.com/tech/993022/wordpress-automattic-ce... also has a writeup which takes some quotes from the article (and a statement by Automattic).
- qarl 7d agoIf the board is going behind his back... then how does he know he was put on leave?
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- dramm 7d agoI am surprised it has taken the Automattic board so long, just don't understand that.
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- junon 7d agoFinally.
- bravetraveler 7d agoEnforced by checkboxes on every login form, no doubt. Less sarcastically: I hope his corporate access is thoroughly controlled; we've seen him in 'full force', before. Article says no change for .org... this will almost surely become interesting.
- gregjw 7d agoFinally
- munificent 7d ago> One person speculated that the timing may have something to do with Mullenweg’s annual trip to the Burning Man festival, after which he tends to return “with ideas.” This line is so perfectly on the nose it could be in a McSweeney's article and yet here it is in reality. We are truly on the weirdest timeline.
- bredren 7d agoI like how somehow this was the final straw.
- eclipticplane 7d agoMaybe he forgot to submit his PTO into Workday.
- throwup238 7d agoMany Burning Man guides, including the original arctic monkey guide that I first read about 20 years ago, specifically warn against making any life altering decisions for weeks after Burning Man. Decompression is a bitch when coming down from half a dozen psychedelics.
- phrotoma 7d agoWell shit. I'm a huge fan of the band Artic Monkeys but I know nothing about festival guides. Is there a connection?
- flobosg 6d agoNo. In this case “Arctic Monkey” is just the pseudonym used by the guide writer.
- prox 7d agoI have seen way too many people in my surroundings go off their rockers after too many ayahuasca trips, especially if they do it in a short time frame, they get emotionally unregulated.
- jrflowers 7d ago> One person speculated that the timing may have something to do with Mullenweg’s annual trip to the Burning Man festival, after which he tends to return “with ideas.” This year’s festival ended on September 7. HN needs to allow some html in comments so we can put ‘lmao’ in <blink> and <marquee> tags
- kffkfkgj 7d ago[dead]
- c16 7d agoThey should have voted on if pineapple deserves to be on pizza while they were at it. The guy had to go.
- moomoo11 7d agopro tip: don’t go public. don’t get a board. maintain full control.
- ablation 7d agoLong overdue. Matt needs to get some professional help or support, some of his actions have been incredibly harmful to the WordPress community.
- stef25 7d agoBreaking news big tech guy gets to do nothing and still get paid
- doubletwoyou 7d agoGood riddance! His neurotic public harassment of anyone who is remotely aligned against him (cf. Tumblr moderation and AspirePress) is simply childish and leaves much to be desired. His behaviour has shown him to be unfit to be a CEO.
- radicalbyte 7d agoOh that's who Mullenweg is? I had a bit of an argument with him on one of the socials, I was making the argument that Zuck has very much jumped the shark but he seemed to be a big fan. He didn't have particularly good arguments though, given the abject failure to create anything interesting since the original Facebook site (they've been making also-ran clones before buying the competition OR going into new markets and failing since the early 2010s). He has obviously ran the core money machine ruthlessly once he won social.
- zerof1l 7d agoHopefully, WP will get better. At the moment, WP itself, its ecosystem, and community are such a cesspool. It should not be used for anything more than just basic blogging. Even then, there are better alternatives. Especially in this day and age, when an AI model can easily write you what you need. It can write you something better than the trash adware on the plugin/theme store.
- timbooktwo 6d agoThe more I see, the more convinced I am that Silicon Valley was actually a documentary.
- joeblubaugh 6d agoAt least he’s going out with class
- Simulacra 6d agoAfter reading about his behavior over the past couple of years, I'm sad that it took this long. He has far too much hostility for the community to continue.
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- dayvid 6d agoWordpress was an amazing piece of software. They could have a future in the AI era which has a similar issue in standardizing content managing platforms, but what a fumble. And over something with such a small moat as a hosting platform for businesses.
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- ferfumarma 6d ago> The situation is obviously more complex than any of us know, and I'd encourage everyone to be a bit more positive and supportive of a fellow founder and builder. What is your basis for this claim? His actions and behavior are publicly visible, and I can't even imagine a hidden context that would justify how he has acted.
- ImPostingOnHN 4d agoIt's so weird how all your posts show absolutely no consideration or praise for anyone except Matt. Like everyone else in the world is an NPC whose perspective can be ignored or overruled by this one dude.
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- gui_azeredo 6d agoI read a lot of people saying so many things about Matt from the outside. As an Automattician for 9 years now, what I see from the inside is the best work environment I've ever been part of, and the best I've heard of compared to what colleagues describe at other big tech companies. Automattic is the most diverse and fair company I've seen, with an open and transparent culture. He might not be perfect, but all of this was created under his leadership. That starts with a genuinely unique hiring process that lets the company find people who fit well, and it extends to the way he delegates to leaders below him so they can do their best, while still letting anyone, in any position, share their thoughts on anything. On top of that, there are all his contributions to open source, alongside the products and services under Automattic's umbrella. I'm not sure what the intentions are behind the attacks on him, but I know from my experience that they aren't fair.
- xboxnolifes 6d ago> I'm not sure what the intentions are behind the attacks on him, but I know from my experience that they aren't fair. The entire saga is easily discoverable through an internet search. If you care to learn, you can read about it pretty easily.
- zackerist 6d agoGive the guy a break. So much jealousy waiting to be poured out into word of hate. Says far more about you than it does about him.
- stasomatic 6d agoWho uses WP outside of legacy installs? I used to love it 15 or so years ago for side hustle work, but over time it gained weight and vulnerabilities, whack-a-mole. Plug-ins were nice, but that <?php...> inlining wasn't. I don't hate PHP, the things were just clumsy and messy inside the loop and I wasn't smart enough. What's the replacement these days in case I need to set up something simple quickly? Not Square Space or Shopify, although those are good products imo.
- ubermonkey 6d agoA huge chunk of the web is WP.
- sjs382 6d agoHe's really tweeting through it today: https://xcancel.com/photomatt/with_replies https://xcancel.com/photomatt/with_replies From a quick scan of his recent tweets, https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenwegs-messages-went-missing-amid-a-failed-backup-and-two-lost-devices-court-filing-reveals https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenwegs-messages-wen... might answer the "why now?" of this.
- ValentineC 6d agoThanks for this. I try not to waste my time on WordPress drama anymore, but it's sad reading his tweets from today and thinking how someone I used to respect for supposedly being kind and generous (or just good at writing well to get what he wants) has fallen so far.
- qlte 6d agoMan, in a thread he links to his tweet from 2024 that mentions using disappearing messages on Signal which the WPEngine lawyers are now using against him. So many people (including DannyBee, himself a lawyer) were telling him on HN how opposing counsel would be analyzing every post looking for any kind of angle to give them an edge, and it was very much in his best interest to step away from his computer. But, in reply he said his own lawyers said it was fine so no big deal... EDIT: also his bright pink X profile image is abusing HDR to make it extra annoyingly bright and the rest of my screen dim on my phone. Very off-putting behavior but pretty on character.
- adamziel 6d agoI’ve been at Automattic since 2018. Reading this thread, I wanted to share a story. In 2022, Matt supported me and my work on WordPress Playground [1]. Playground was in its early days and most people were still questioning whether it did anything useful. I got skepticism from peers, social media, even from my direct lead at the time. Not from Matt. He encouraged me, promoted Playground, created an environment where I could build a team around it, and encouraged us to always open-source more and more for the community. Since then, Playground has matured, grown in popularity, and sparked other great open-source work [2][3][4][5]. Now it’s 2026, and Playground helps a lot of people every day. And that wouldn’t have happened without Matt. No company is perfect. I’m just grateful to be part of one that values open-source so, so much. Automattic has been around 21 years now. It must have spent dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars on building free, open source software! And everything have changed so much during those 21 years: The industry, the VC landscape, the prices of hardware. Every incentive to go closed-source is there, and yet Automattic is still doubling down on open-source. I think that’s pretty amazing, and I’m grateful to Matt for staying true to those values. Anyway, that's the story. Take care of yourselves, everyone! [1] https://wordpress.org/playground/ https://wordpress.org/playground/ [2] https://wordpress.com/studio/ https://wordpress.com/studio/ [3] https://github.com/WordPress/sqlite-database-integration https://github.com/WordPress/sqlite-database-integration [4] https://github.com/WordPress/php-toolkit/ https://github.com/WordPress/php-toolkit/ [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378305
- ivraatiems 6d agoThanks for sharing your story. How do you feel about the more recent behavior, though - the WP engine lawsuit, the buyout, etc.? Does that align with the person you saw and knew back then?
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- chorlo 6d agoCouldn't agree more.
- rtiodev 6d agoI run payments engineering at Automattic, on the WooCommerce side. Speaking for myself. The company statement is on TechCrunch. Mark Davies, the CFO, is interim CEO, and Mary Hubbard told TechCrunch that WordPress.org is unaffected. I won't guess at the board's reasons. Nothing about how my teams ship has changed since the news broke. The repos are public if you want to watch. I've worked under Matt for years and I'm grateful for the company he built. People can argue about the rest.
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- tosti 6d agoTowards the end it says "Mullenweng"