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1. Joshua Iz 57 min later

   @zachleat

   This one reads particularly petty and lacking substance. Oof.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @joshuaiz yeahhhhhhh—big oof, indeed.

2. Gavin Anderegg 59 min later

   @zachleat I guess all hosting companies should remove any mention of WordPress from their sites? I think Matt has maybe lost the plot here.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @gavinanderegg it’s okay to selectively (and on a 14-year delay) enforce a trademark against only one of your competitors, right?

      …right?

3. Zach Leatherman 8 hr later

   Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/

   (via @collinsworth)

   1. cthos 🐱 9 hr later

      @zachleat This is all very cool and normal.

      1. Zach Leatherman 9 hr later

         @cthos super good open ecosystem vibes all around

   2. Simon Jones 9 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth 🤯

      We are literally about to launch a client site in 2 days time on WP Engine (though we do manage plugins ourselves in version control)

      1. Simon Jones 2 days later

         @zachleat @collinsworth The website launch on WP Engine went fine, though I did have to inform our client of this legal wrangling nonsense 😀

         1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

            @simonrjones @collinsworth whew, that must be a relief!

   3. Eric A. Meyer 9 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth 🤦

   4. jake lazaroff 9 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth yikes — if i were using wordpress i would be absolutely scrambling to migrate away right now.

   5. Rich Holman 9 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth 👀

   6. Rich Holman 9 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth kinda glad I just finished my WP CLI >> 11ty 3.0 beta pipeline.

      1. Zach Leatherman 23 hr later

         @dogwonder @collinsworth nice! I heard 11ty was good

         1. Josh Collinsworth 1 day later

            @zachleat @dogwonder Hmmm maybe but I don't really trust open-source software unless there's an unhinged dictator or an evil corporation behind it. (Ideally both.)

            1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

               @collinsworth @dogwonder makes sense—apropos of nothing what do you know about Rails

               1. Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) 1 day later

                  @zachleat @collinsworth @dogwonder Well at least Rails has a Foundation now which can transparently manage any trademark dispu—

                  Oh.

                  1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

                     @jaredwhite @collinsworth @dogwonder no one has an exclusive license on screaming though (IANAL)

      2. Chris Ferdinandi 1 day later

         @dogwonder @zachleat @collinsworth smart, move! Leaving WordPress for a static site generator is one of the best moves I ever made.

   7. Sandrine 10 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth
      The whole debacle is giving Main Character energy.

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   9. Lea de Groot TZ+10 13 hr later

      @zachleat @collinsworth this is why you never give senior staff write priv on the repo ;)

   10. Mario 14 hr later

       @zachleat @collinsworth It doesn't only appear like that, Matt posted it in the open: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/

       "WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources."

       IMO this is not reducing trust in WPEngine but WordPress as a whole and I can't imagine what this mess will lead to...

       1. Zach Leatherman 23 hr later

          @mariohamann @collinsworth wooooof