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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.38s | source
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iambateman ◴[11 Jan 25 21:44 UTC] No.42669164[source]▶
This is - without question - the best thing that could happen for their fork. It’s generating 100x the amount of attention they would’ve gotten otherwise.

I’ve known about Joost for many years and have a ton of respect for his work. Best of luck making this happen!

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1. mthoms ◴[12 Jan 25 00:07 UTC] No.42670011[source]▶
They never claimed to be starting a fork (at least not yet)[0]. They only called for reform to the existing governance structures.[1]

Matt Mullenweg painted it as a fork to suit his narrative and pre-emptively poison the well (by implying they are incompetent) of a potential future fork.[2]

He's done that a couple times now. He claims to support forks and says "I'll even promote them on WordPress.org" (paraphrase) but what he does is post before a fork is even ready or properly organized. Thereby sabotaging the effort and making everyone involved look bad. [3]

It's truly evil.

[0] https://x.com/jdevalk/status/1878210129914409063

[1] https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/

[2] https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/

[3] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/spoon/

EDIT: Matt just posted another childish taunt in response to Joost's clarification. See https://x.com/photomatt/status/1878227222927933815