Episode 625: What Fresh Hell

Manton and Daniel catch up on the latest developments in the WordPress vs. WPEngine kerfuffle, and continuing after-effects. They talk about Matt Mullenweg’s tendency lately to deliver seemingly calm and encouraging messages that are nonetheless laced with evidence of his spite towards antagonists. Finally they talk about Automattic’s decision to reduce its own contribution to WordPress Core development, and the implications for the rest of the WordPress community.

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Holiday Break – Matt’s December 20 post about the WordPress team shutting down for the holidays.

WPEngine – WordPress hosting company at the center of Matt’s anger.

The Mad King of WordPress? – Inc. magazine article profiling Matt Mullenweg in less than flattering ways.

Inc. Hit Piece – Matt’s response to the Inc. article.

I Support the Mad King – Manton’s defense of Matt Mullenweg.

Aligning Automattic’s Contributions – Automattic announcement that they would drastically reduce their contributions to the open source WordPress project.

The People Should Own the Town Square – Mastodon’s plans to diversify control of the company and brand away from sole control by its founder.

Automattic and .blog – Manton responds to fears some have of the .blog domain being at risk.

Micro.one – Manton’s recently launched lower cost blogging tier.

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