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chris_wot ◴[] No.41830667[source]
Hang on, the ACF plugin has been replaced by a different plugin, published by a different party? And install on every Wordpress installation?!?
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chx ◴[] No.41830746[source]
The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction might follow next week. And most certainly it also violates community trust very, very big time.

This on top of the "swear fealty" checkbox on login which caused multiple high profile contributors to leave and now shut the accessibility team down https://i.imgur.com/0jCZnlm.png

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TavsiE9s ◴[] No.41831172[source]
Excuse me for being OOTL: what "WP Engine checkbox"?
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1. anakaine ◴[] No.41831248[source]
You must agree on sign up that you're not affiliated with WP Engine. WP has been having a spat with WP engine.