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As an enthusiastic WordPress developer who creates and supports sites for small to mid-sized businesses, I'm not happy with the current state of things. Matt Mullenweg has taken this to the point of no return. The only way to save wordpress is for him to blame his behavior on a mental health crisis or drugs and step down. I'm no fan of private equity firms but Matt is on some crazy sh|t.
That being said, if Matt does not leave then I will. The trust has been broken. Fortunately I've been playing around with Laravel and I feel comfortable going all in and leveling on that framework. It seems like a great opportunity to unify my primary dev environment. Using Laravel for CMS and for more complicated web apps is the path I'm likely to choose.
I’m sorry who are you?
Ok, bye to whoever this is.
I think that unless people leave en masse, and he actually feels a financial burn, he won’t care. Speaking of burn, I feel like he’s on the path to just burn this whole thing down. Reading about all the things he’s done in the past, and how he’s been handling things in this recent meltdown of his, he’s not going to back down unless someone removes him – but can anyone actually remove him? Doesn’t seem like it.
Yeah matt is loco
People like to point to mental health, but I think there is a long history of Matt being exactly who is now. It reminds me of what came out of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and the failure of FTX. Everything Sam did from the hairstyle he had, to the cloths he wore, to the car he drove was a strategy. He wanted to portray a geeky tech guy that really didn’t care about money. Matt did the same as he needed to sell his “Foundation” that he could then mirror for his For Profit. He was and still is very good at it.
>Matt Mullenweg has taken this to the point of no return. The only way to save wordpress is for him to blame his behavior on a mental health crisis or drugs and step down.
I’m not sure what “step down” in this context means. Matt holds multiple relevant positions, CEO and Board Member of Automattic, Director of the WordPress Foundation, and Owner of the .org.
He might step down as CEO for Automattic, but he’s not going anywhere.
>Using Laravel for CMS and for more complicated web apps is the path I’m likely to choose.
Larvavel isn’t a CMS, it’s a php framework. There are CMS:s built on Laravel like October and Statamic, but those are very different form WordPress.
Friendly reminder that WordPress is used by basically half of the internet.
I like Laravel too, but WP is still king and Laravel is overkill for a lot of what WP is good at. Personally I’m going to sit the sidelines and not freak out yet.
/r/wordpress moderators are worthless scum who are probably being paid by Matt to protect his reputation. Their behaviour is infantile and obviously dishonest and disingenuous. They’re bad people.
Matt’s mom is obsessed with his sex life and is a massive racist, and Matt helps her abuse and control and manipulate underpaid caretakers.