The title gives away the plot, but this is a very good, long, detailed summary about the entire Wordpress/WP Engine fiasco of the past week from every angle: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt
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The title gives away the plot, but this is a very good, long, detailed summary about the entire Wordpress/WP Engine fiasco of the past week from every angle: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt
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Matt Haughey 🎃replied to Matt Haughey 🎃 last edited by
My biggest question is: Who pushed Matt on this? He didn't wake up and decide to blow up his 20 year project. Someone (VC funders?) told him to go to extraordinary lengths, making one questionable decision after another in service of something.
I know his reactions to small controversies have been weird in the past, but this goes so far beyond normal I honestly wonder who showed him a graph of WPE revenue vs. Wordpress.com revenue with the lines criss-crossing in the immediate future.
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Matt Haughey 🎃replied to Matt Haughey 🎃 last edited by
No one would just blow up 20+ years of good will for no reason. Someone told him to fix this or he's out and I honestly wonder who is above him in the Wordpress universe (is there anyone? his company is called autoMATTic ffs)
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Ava :transheart:replied to Matt Haughey 🎃 last edited by
@mathowie @marcoarment If you’ve been on Tumblr for the past few years, this is unsurprising. Matt is known on Tumblr for being… easily upset. He’s super transphobic and had dozens of trans women banned for making fun of him, then followed them to other social media sites to attack them. He’s a terrible person and this spite from him is fully precedented.
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@mathowie I think that if current events have taught us anything, it's that people who have more money than they can possibly every spend make some weird-ass decisions.
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@jwz @mathowie Apparently he ran the same playbook against GoDaddy two years ago, so this has pot has been boiling for longer than I originally assumed.
It would be interesting to know what started it boiling, though. I would argue that at this stage Matt kind of has to explain that, if he wants to retain any credibility.
Matt Mullenweg Identifies GoDaddy as a “Parasitic Company” and an “Existential Threat to WordPress’ Future”
On Thursday Matt Mullenweg responded to an inquiry on Twitter from Jeff Matson, a Pagely employee, about whether Automattic’s Newspack platform had all open open source components or some pro…
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@mathowie I think people who have lost touch might do that. I think we've seen other "difficult to understand' weird left-turn choices that had bad consequences that were poorly understood by people who just... don't live life with consequences anymore. (the Archive for example, not the same motivations but I think the same mindset behind them)
ETA Because, honestly, this is just weird incel "HOW DARE YOU REFUSE ME" energy and it's the same everywhere to varying degrees.
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Matt Haughey 🎃replied to Matt Haughey 🎃 last edited by
This sounds like what would cause a CEO to make a series of bad moves. They borrowed money while things were going great, now funders are turning the screws and demanding a return on investment asap, so you get the last week of desperation.
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