He did all of this during the last day of a conference.

So rather than inspiring the WordPress community to push forward and do good things, he spent an hour just antagonizing and shaming companies that literally sponsored the conference.

This is like when Elon Musk cursed out advertisers on Twitter.

If this was just a battle about a big company going after open-source branding, it's pretty easy to see the sides. But this is a guy who ripped into a competitor (which btw, has sponsored MANY WordPress conferences and provided tooling/fund for things outside of WordPress core) and fractured the community significantly.

Honestly I don't GAF about WPengine. But Matt makes money off of WordPress too. And his actions led to 1/10 of his company quitting.

I'm pissed that as a open-source developer, Matt has pulled the non-profit open-source project into this mess, when he owns a FOR-PROFIT company that would benefit from WPEngine failing.

Matt needs to step down. WordPress as a open-source project needs to be in the hands of people who want to drive the mission forward in a non-sleazy way.

The comparison with Android and Google, I'd argue it's worse on android.

You can absolutely host your own open-source WordPress, and get plugins and core features using a mirrored server. It's a bit harder, but if you're anti-Matt, then you're technically competent already to do this. And the experience is pretty straightforward.

For Android development, many features that are really nice-to-haves require Google services. Yes, there are workarounds. But it's reinventing the wheel, creating your own systems, and can be a inconsistent experience for users.

Btw, I'm on the "Fuck Matt" train, because as a open-source contributors, he's making devs lives harder with his meltdown. But I also giving double middle fingers to WP Engine.

I don't think so. It's been making the tech waves for the past year. As a multinational, my company went department by department, ensuring we clean up and remove anything potentially connected to Russia. I'm guessing it's never been newsworthy enough for the average person.

This was in 2016. But there was a indie game from a small dev in a European country that allowed backers to name NPCs, and there were some racist names. I called that out in my review, and the Dev went, "It's not racist here in my country."

That led to a back and forth on the Steam forum which I got banned. Then I shared it on Reddit, but was stupid to use the same steam name as my twitter name and got a lot of toxic shit.

I changed my steam name and tossed my twitter account, so no idea what happened, nor do I remember the game.

Lol I was just going to bring that up

No one answered it in the comments but is this saying the dog is 45? Like in human years?

Seriously.

1 website that forwards data to all the social media platforms.

I went to a AI conference and you can just sense how bogus it all feels. Like "Our patent pending AI system references billions of crowd-sourced data points to identify what you are craving for breakfast! Never think about breakfast again!"

And as a engineer speaking with other engineers, we all collectively shrug and just keep taking the money. I'll AI your toaster for enough money IDGAF.

To this day, I still can't believe how long Reddit defended underage porn subreddits. Literally do nothing and say "free speech" . Then suddenly a news article happens and then they finally take action.

(White House does anything)

This person: Why are they interfering with the election?!

Not really what Valve did. Valve kept doing cool things that benefit the customer, while the competition actively drove them away.

I don't follow social media. Is BlueSky feature rich and only getting better?