This spat is embarrassing for both companies.
What do you mean by both? What should have WPEngine done differently?
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#12Oh no, marketing teams everywhere are in disarray and might need to talk to their organization’s full stack developer teams
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#13I have no dog in this fight, but from the outside this is ludicrous behaviour.
Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of a for-profit WordPress hosting company, should not be using his position in the open-source WordPress project to attack another for-profit WordPress hosting company. Nothing could tank the reputation of the open-source WordPress project faster.
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#14while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back, if Mullenweg were serious about gaining support from the community he would give a date for people to migrate their systems off of WPEngine before they blocked it.
this just feels petty as hell and honestly makes me annoyed at him than anything, no warning whatsoever. nobody has time to just "migrate to pressable" on a whim. just be glad it's something not more critical than updating some plugins.
you also can't deny the obvious conflict of interest here where it feels like he's trying take a "competitor" down. sucks all around.
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#15This whole thing seems petty and vindictive and will surely only damage Wordpress as a whole.
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#16Is anyone still using WordPress?
Just 478 million websites representing 43% of the web.
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#17Is anyone still using WordPress?
40+% of the websites online?
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#19I wonder what the fallout of this will be. If this results in a successful fork of wordpress with a registry independent from Wordpress.org that would be quite ironic.
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#20Related announcement from Wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/
Regardless of the claims made, that is a startlingly immature piece of communication.