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Can you provide some examples of these errors? Asking genuinely.

Deukhoofd 7d ago
The biggest one was probably 2 years back, the dispute with WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress. He used WordPress infrastructure to force all instances hosted there to break, then removed the extensions they built from the plugin store, and then replaced them under the exact same name and identifier with his own. He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. These comments were then of course used in subsequent lawsuits, which so far he's been losing. He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit.
- irl_zebra 6d ago
  This was not an error: > He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit. It was actually a pretty nice offer. iirc it was a pretty decent severance, no questions asked.
- toast0 6d ago
  > He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. As I recall, some of his posts indicated he was knowingly posting against the advice of his lawyers. Although he probably didn't discuss individual posts.
  - 12_throw_away 6d ago
    ... and that's how screenshots of hn comments ended up in this federal court order [1, pg. 24] [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.64.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...
acomjean 7d ago
The whole WP engine thing. I think it’s private equity buying a wordpress thing, but things got weird and it starting getting bad press. There was the hijacking of a plugin from them if I recall among other things (checkbox in login saying you weren’t affiliated with Wpengine) Talking to a few Wordpress consultants they were getting questions from their clients which isn’t good. Matt has seemed erratic from a casual outside view. If he’s having issues hope he pulls it together. The WP community is pretty good.

The biggest one was probably 2 years back, the dispute with WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress. He used WordPress infrastructure to force all instances hosted there to break, then removed the extensions they built from the plugin store, and then replaced them under the exact same name and identifier with his own. He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. These comments were then of course used in subsequent lawsuits, which so far he's been losing. He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit.

irl_zebra 6d ago
This was not an error: > He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit. It was actually a pretty nice offer. iirc it was a pretty decent severance, no questions asked.
toast0 6d ago
> He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. As I recall, some of his posts indicated he was knowingly posting against the advice of his lawyers. Although he probably didn't discuss individual posts.
- 12_throw_away 6d ago
  ... and that's how screenshots of hn comments ended up in this federal court order [1, pg. 24] [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.64.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...

acomjean 7d ago

The whole WP engine thing. I think it’s private equity buying a wordpress thing, but things got weird and it starting getting bad press. There was the hijacking of a plugin from them if I recall among other things (checkbox in login saying you weren’t affiliated with Wpengine) Talking to a few Wordpress consultants they were getting questions from their clients which isn’t good. Matt has seemed erratic from a casual outside view. If he’s having issues hope he pulls it together. The WP community is pretty good.