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    Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

    (techcrunch.com)
    465 points impish9208 | 14 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source | bottom
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    diggan ◴[11 Jan 25 23:28 UTC] No.42669804[source]▶
    From Mullenweg (https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/):

    > To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts of Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort.

    He seems to be justifying the deactivation by claiming it will 'help them', somehow?

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    1. sd9 ◴[11 Jan 25 23:42 UTC] No.42669902[source]▶
    This post is wild. Mullenweg comes across as completely unstable, insecure, and appears to feel very threatened. He takes every opportunity he can to give a thinly veiled insult.

    Wordpress is a giant. If he’s as confident as he tries to present in this post, he could just do nothing and Wordpress would prove the more valuable software in the end. Instead, he’s accelerating progress on the fork.

    He could have done with taking a few deep breaths before publishing this post.

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    2. bdndndndbve ◴[12 Jan 25 00:43 UTC] No.42670194[source]▶
    Have you followed this at all? The man has been in HN threads arguing about posts about himself for months. He's on some kind of scorched earth ego trip.

    His profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt

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    3. mingus88 ◴[12 Jan 25 00:56 UTC] No.42670246[source]▶
    It feels like this decade or so is defined by people who just don't know when to fade out and retire with their legacies intact.

    Whether it be this guy, elderly politicians, or billionaires with social media addictions, everyone's lives would be far better, including their own, if they simply knew when to stfu and enjoy their success in peace.

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    4. bdndndndbve ◴[12 Jan 25 01:00 UTC] No.42670273{3}[source]▶
    Unlike famously chill billionaires of the past like William Randolph Hearst or Howard Hughes
    5. saagarjha ◴[12 Jan 25 01:05 UTC] No.42670296[source]▶
    I see he’s back to posting again. Do we think he fired his lawyers or that they quit?
    6. indigodaddy ◴[12 Jan 25 02:15 UTC] No.42670672[source]▶
    Interesting his karma is currently 20XX. If I had to guess, it was probably significantly higher before this whole thing blew up?
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    7. throwup238 ◴[12 Jan 25 02:48 UTC] No.42670861{3}[source]▶
    IIRC karma losses from downvoting are capped at 3 or 4 per comment.
    8. Dalewyn ◴[12 Jan 25 02:50 UTC] No.42670873{3}[source]▶
    I don't recall when this adventure started, but going through the Wayback Machine his karma was 1.7k around December 2023[1] and then climbed to 1.8k around September 2024[2] and then just a hair under 2.1k around October 2024[3].

    So if anything, it seems his karma increased since the saga began.

    [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20231220230743/https://news.ycom...

    [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240930175846/https://news.ycom...

    [3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20241013035048/https://news.ycom...

    9. 2Gkashmiri ◴[12 Jan 25 06:32 UTC] No.42671710[source]▶
    I even asked Matt to sue me just for lulz and my 2 minutes of fame. Hehe
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    10. baobun ◴[12 Jan 25 13:53 UTC] No.42673531{3}[source]▶
    Unfortunately it seems like it might be the dawn of the era of demagogues aka mob rule :/
    11. wodenokoto ◴[12 Jan 25 14:25 UTC] No.42673754[source]▶
    I think down voting photomatt is immature and unconstructive. Whether you agree or disagree with his opinion, I think his views are quite central to a discussion on what is going on.

    Down votes hides posts. I don't understand why so many HN'er wants Matt's comments removed from HN threads about WP.

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    12. eGQjxkKF6fif ◴[12 Jan 25 15:16 UTC] No.42674140{3}[source]▶
    I think you misunderstand entirely. HN wants Matt removed from the internet, and for good reason.
    13. throw16180339 ◴[12 Jan 25 20:51 UTC] No.42676818{3}[source]▶
    He threatened to sue the person behind bullenweg.com (https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134), so if you're really interested you could revive it. The repo is at https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io and there's another mirror available at bullenweg.org.
    14. SlightlyLeftPad ◴[12 Jan 25 22:42 UTC] No.42677731{3}[source]▶
    As someone who hasn’t been following this at all. It seems like I’m watching a digital mob go after a heretic which is interesting.