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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
