People.
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@jalefkowit @glent @ShiitakeToast not only do I vehemently agree with this, I'll go one further: it's the raison d'être of the corporate structure. It is supposed to build a business that is resilient to the faults of any single person, up to & very much including its senior leadership positions. Any company not managing this feat is whiffing one of its most crucial goals.
(Not sufficient, of course, only necessary. You still have to make payroll, have income, not alienate your workforce...)
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@gnomon @glent @ShiitakeToast If I ever manage to build my business into anything significant, I expect at some point the board will come by to take the keys to my fedi account away. I will have to console myself by racing carbon-fiber catamarans crewed by Ivy-educated supermodels
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Harish Narayananreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit @SymTrkl @glyph And remember in the elden times when Photography Matthew keyword stuffed wordpress.org with hidden text for SEO and ad money?
Or am I just that old?
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit that post was negging from start to finish.
The shitposter in me would also like to advise librematt.org is free. Although that would play into his ego.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit seriously why is no one locking his devices away?
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Harish Narayanan last edited by
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Bryan Redeagle :bc:replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit So I'm getting (since this whole craziness started) that Matt's crazy, but what's Photography Matthew? Has he done a crazy before?
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@jalefkowit what even?
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Bryan Redeagle :bc: last edited by
@bryanredeagle His online handle is PhotoMatt. It’s a pun on a thing nobody under age 30 will remember.
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@dysfun Who even knows anymore. It’s just this goddamn rock we all have to drag uphill forever now
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TechCrunch has picked up the story of Photography Matthew's latest blog tantrum. If you want/need context, they do a pretty good job of providing it.
Matt Mullenweg to deactivate WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans | TechCrunch
Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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@jalefkowit Nah, I'm good.
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@APBBlue I occasionally have to remind myself that the general run of humanity is not professionally obliged to follow this madness. The lucky bastards
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"Woke up to a phone full of pings that @photomatt has…publicly announced he’s deactivated an account I haven’t logged into since February 2020, for an OSS project I haven’t been involved with since then, and am not involved with now.
Must have been a bad batch from his dealer."
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"Another thing that came to light yesterday was that the WordPress Sustainability committee was shuttered after a core member, Thijs Buijs, stepped down. In a post on the WordPress Slack, Buijs cited the '2025 drama' post on Reddit as the reason he was leaving, and called for a change in WordPress community leadership. In response, Mullenweg responded in part with '[t]oday I learned that we have a sustainability team', and closed the channel."
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that’s going on. It should be noted that many sites are leaving for Pressable — owned by Mullenweg’s company, Automattic — because of a sweetheart deal.
anderegg.ca (anderegg.ca)
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@jalefkowit hubris is a hell of a drug
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@stevelord My big question at this point is whether the cause is metaphorical drugs or actual ones
