The #WordPress contributor Slack is turning into a clusterfuck.
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I reckon we're a few days away from Matt forcing a banner onto the dashboard of every self-hosted WordPress instance.
(This is rampant speculation with no evidence behind it.)
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@Edent He's completely lost it, hasn't he? Not willing to back down on even the tiniest detail
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@mattround It's all a bit 4D chess.
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Dylan </closingtags.com>replied to Terence Eden last edited by [email protected]
@Edent The thing that frustrates me with this drama is the reasoning "Well its Matt's project. He can do what he wants with it."
That's such a slap in the face to the countless hours put in by all of the contributors that poured their souls into a project because they believed in the mission. WordPress was supposed to be bigger than Matt.
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@Edent
"Why are you in this Slack, then?"
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@Edent this Matt guy is uh, pretty embarrassing. His blog post where he flexes about buying out employees that don't agree with him is, wow. Just wow.
I never heard of the guy until all this started happening with WordPress, I wonder who else is learning of his existence through this lens of bizarre, childish behavior?
Seems like they really need to restructure things and unblur some lines so that he's not in charge of, y'know, the whole damn thing.
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@Edent 🫡🫡🫡
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As tediously predicted. Had lots of positive reactions to my message. But, of course, no dissent is tolerated in Open Source…⸮
Why do these tech-bros have such thin skins?
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Pedro Machado Santareplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent I don't even... that's brutal.
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Andrea Grandi 🦕replied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent I'm absolutely not suggesting you to blog the whole story and post it to HN, but I may
it if you do it 
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Terence Edenreplied to Andrea Grandi 🦕 last edited by
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Thanks. I think enough pixels have been bled over this. -
…DSAR sent to to WordPress's GDPR team regarding this decision.
I wonder if they'll actually comply with the law?
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@Edent this whole palaver melts my brain and I'm sorry to see you're impacted. What a farce.
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@Edent I'd like to suggest that it's not Open Source that has a no dissent policy. Suggesting that is disparaging everyone who works in Open Source, the vast majority of whoem are level headed and willing to hear disagreement.
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Of course, the continuing #WPDrama reminds us that there really is no need for a centralised "app store".
The #WordPress plugin directory is useful for *discovery*. But it probably makes more sense for plugins and themes to update from their own site / git rather than a capricious host.
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@Edent centralized repositories aren't perfect, but I'd argue they are extremely important for your average WP user because they are well vetted. Having a repository of free apps that are easy to search, review, and consistently be able to find details like "last updated" is so handy. The most important feature though, was that users didn't have to run through the tools themselves to look for malicious code.
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The problem is, that vetting doesn't exist.I used a popular plugin which, at some point, was compromised. The bad version was uploaded to the WP directory. WP then delivered it to my blog where it started serving malware to my users and creating compromised admin accounts.
The directory isn't as well vetted as, say Google Play.
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@Edent The advantage I saw was some assurance of code quality & security as plugins were vetted & devs got some viral benefit to help build a plugin user base. If some community effort could go into a true NFP run plugin repositry that could satisfy growth & security without enabling theft in the future
