Sure seems like there’s a whole lot of “personal vendetta” to it, too.
Here’s a great way to have that impact.👇
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I’m a bit surprised! He struck me as a MAGA type, but then again I’ve also been blocked by him for a few years now.
GM! 
It stands for “advanced custom fields”, allowing users to add an huge range of content editing options to Wordpress posts. It is one of the most popular and most downloaded WordPress plugins ever.
Exactly. Someone builds a decentralized nostr repository for code, even if it’s just for WordPress code, and every dev in the world will take notice.
Stripping the ACF plugin away from its developers, locking them out of the repository, forking it, renaming it, and forcing users to update to your new version seems pretty alarming.
I’m not moving away from WordPress anytime soon. There are going to likely be some major shifts in the community, but the shakeout will take time.
Was just driving behind a Cadillac with the license plates “AYN RAND” that had the gall to be driving on public roads with me.
Even if it starts as A or C, it will inevitably become B.
Matt Mullenweg (founder) got in a fight with WPEngine (huge host and developer) and he’s been acting like an entitled billionaire. He’s made moves which is making the rest of the open-source community VERY nervous when it comes to code repositories.
Yeah, that was way over the line.
Excellent question — over my pay grade. 😅
Yeah, I think people are already looking at or working on ways to fork WordPress. At this point, I suspect the community would flock, but there’s also been a LOT of talk about a decentralized plugin/theme repo.
Definitely turbulent times to be a WordPress professional. 😅