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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: 0.228s | source
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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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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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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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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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1. Dalewyn ◴[12 Jan 25 02:50 UTC] No.42670873[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...