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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by rurp »

bityard wrote: post #2

Last year, I was contacted out of the blue by an Automattic recruiter who encouraged me to apply for an engineering position there. I was intrigued for a few minutes because I recognized the company and knew they did some really terrific open source work once upon a time. But then I regained my senses... I don't have any kind of reputation or extensive proof of accomplishments or character outside of my resume and re…

There's a good chance the recruiter was just spamming anyone and everyone they could find. At least 50% of the cold recruiter messages I've gotten have been for roles that had nothing to do with my background.

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by [deleted] »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #14

Matt’s response to DHH was really some of the pettiest stuff I’ve seen from a major public figure in the tech world Maybe its a newfound persona, maybe its a new marketing angle, or maybe its just someone going a little unhinged. But all isn’t right in the WordPress world

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Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by codegeek »

Mullenweg just keeps digging. He is the only person I have ever seen interacting in such a petty manner that he made a company backed by Private Equity look like a victim. If Trademark was the issue, why did it take him over a decade ? Why is he not going after all the other gazillion WP providers that use similar phrase on their website ? We all know the answer. The only company (WP Engine) that beat his for profit company (wordpress.com). He is just salty.

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by throwawaymaths »

runjake wrote: post #7

One important people to keep in mind as they read this post, the linked Google Doc, and tweets from the past day where a bunch of people are receiving unsolicited DMs[1] from Automattic with grammar that matches Matt's: - Matt, under various guises, is shifting blame to different entities that are effectively himself. - Automattic is Matt. Matt is the CEO of Automattic. - The WordPress Foundation is, effectively, Mat…

> Maybe he's right about WP Engine, but the way he has and continues to handle everything has been disastrous.

As forseen by silicon valley

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by segasaturn »

runjake wrote: post #7

One important people to keep in mind as they read this post, the linked Google Doc, and tweets from the past day where a bunch of people are receiving unsolicited DMs[1] from Automattic with grammar that matches Matt's: - Matt, under various guises, is shifting blame to different entities that are effectively himself. - Automattic is Matt. Matt is the CEO of Automattic. - The WordPress Foundation is, effectively, Mat…

Matt has a history of doing this. There was a similar blowup at Tumblr (owned by Automattic) earlier this year [1] where Matt did the same thing, DM'ing users criticizing him and even tweeting out the private handles of the user he was beefing with.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/tumblr-ceo-publicly-spars-...

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by itfossil »

He is absolutely destroying WordPress. I wasn't ever a fan but given that 40% of websites rely upon it, the end users are the ones who will suffer the most here.

If somebody doesn't fork WordPress soon, it will be decades before WordPress is purged from the web and in the meantime a lot of those remaining sites will devolve into bot-net members and malware hosts.

Because that's how Mullenwegs crusade is going to end: With the death of WordPress.

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by rurp »

FireBeyond wrote: post #8
bityard wrote: post #2

Last year, I was contacted out of the blue by an Automattic recruiter who encouraged me to apply for an engineering position there. I was intrigued for a few minutes because I recognized the company and knew they did some really terrific open source work once upon a time. But then I regained my senses... I don't have any kind of reputation or extensive proof of accomplishments or character outside of my resume and re…

Automattic's recruitment process is also... "involved": > Write a thoughtful cover letter, and thorough responses to application questions. I've seen these kind of application questions before. These are not from Automattic but comparable to what I saw from them: "Describe in detail, including the metrics, KPIs and reasoning you used when you launched your previous 0 to 1 product to ensure a good fit to your customer…

A code test that takes a couple of days?! That's an awful lot of unpaid time for a single interview step, and that's even assuming it's not one of the many companies that underestimates how long the exercise will take. Open application pipelines have a low success rate, so anyone going through this process is likely going through many others as well. Most adults currently in a full time job don't have time for that much nonsense.

Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by [deleted] »

bityard wrote: post #2

Last year, I was contacted out of the blue by an Automattic recruiter who encouraged me to apply for an engineering position there. I was intrigued for a few minutes because I recognized the company and knew they did some really terrific open source work once upon a time. But then I regained my senses... I don't have any kind of reputation or extensive proof of accomplishments or character outside of my resume and re…

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Re: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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Post by altairprime »

The Google doc linked in this post is theoretically a way for a corporation to harvest the Google usernames of people accessing it. They probably wouldn’t be able to see IPs but that doesn’t prohibit Google from writing your username into their audit logs for them. Use appropriate precautions when accessing.
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