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Oh boy it’s happening, Matt and the team at WordPress are forking Advance Custom Fields:
https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
What do you folks think? A good or a bad thing?
I’m worried that this in the long run will stop people from creating plugins on top of WordPress as even though they state “we do not anticipate this happening for other plugins”, it can still scare away people that one they their livelihood might be taken away.
> We expect others will defect as well.
This last sentence shows the true intentions of u/photomatt. He will lie, poach, and outright steal from WP Engine to get his way. Matt Mullenweg is the single biggest threat to WordPress, if not open source in its entirety, and Matt Mullenweg must go.
this is so fucking stupid, i it keeps on getting more stupid day by day. seriously, wtf. this literal manchild has lost his mind.
every small or big developer in the wp ecosystem will take notes. its beyond damaging to their product. fuck this guy.
The free plugin is GPL, so there’s nothing technically wrong with doing it.
I’m just saying that it’s free code, entirely, and anybody can change it and release whatever they like. They went to a lot of trouble to remove the various trademarks and other things from it, and all the pro upsell stuff.
ACF’s team tweet about this situation: [https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049](https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049)
“We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.
A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator **without consent** in the 21 year history of WordPress.”
I hope WPEngine sues Matt for everything he is worth. The guy is a clown.
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Anyone know the security vulnerability they fixed?
I’m totally fucked off with this whole thing. The principle that Mullenweg is pushing could be interpreted as sound (my generous reading: big commercial entities should feel more of a moral obligation to pay back to o/s communities) – and I’m with that – but the way he’s done this has been absolutely abhorrent. All the signals say “batshit power play” and any sympathy that I might have for the principle has long since dissipated.
ACF is so, so central to pretty much everything that WordPress is to me – and pretty much every single developer and agency I know – that this kind of bullshit has me reaching for an entirely new cms, after 20 years in the game. It’s like watching a recalcitrant 12 year old in the school playground not getting what he wants. It’s undermined the entire project just because one guy went batshit and sucked on the same “billionaire lunatic crackpipe” that Musk has sucked on.
As they show over 2 million installations + reviews of ACF – this is not forking, this is a hostile takeover.
In case of forking, the starting point is one item, the result is 2 or more items. In this case, however, the original item has been taken from its owner. It is closer to theft than forking.
It makes sense to create a plugin called **nomattic**, which will remove all the Automattic partner integrations from WooCommerce plugins, including Stripe, PayPal, [Authorize.net](http://Authorize.net), etc.
All we need to do is add a filter for the “http_request_args,” which will remove affiliate garbage added by Automattic.
It’s time for the FO part of FAFO.
What a disaster this all has all become. Matt’s ego is out of control.
Matt is out of his mind. He’s doing extortion, blackmail, theft, burning bridges, acting super impulsively, throwing his lawyers under the bus. And he’s having an active nosebleed on a livestream yesterday and not acknowledging it. It’s time we ask Matt to pass a drug test or step down.
Literally not a fork. This is a hostile takeover and WP Engine is right to call it what it is.
I always thought custom post types should be part of WordPress core, but this is not the way to go about it.
Are they trying to break the WordPress community like the Drupal community was broken a few years ago..?
Is Matt’s goal at this point to inflate WPEngine’s lawsuit with so much material it would take years for the case to be resolved on each point? Is this some 4D chess move I’m too stupid to understand? Absolutely incredible.
Why is there no revolt? He’s straight up blackmailing and stealing shit. This is a mega corp that can fight back with lawsuits, but it sets a precedent that Matt will simply steal your entire business if he feels like you don’t pay him enough.
This shit is wild and not nearly talked about enough. *Half the internet is running on this fuckwads mid life crisis*. This needs to stop asap. Some of the damage to WordPress has already been irreversible.
Has anyone taken a look at the SCF plugin in the repository? It seems that Matt is intentionally trying to confuse the community with SCF vs ACF:
The repository URL for SCF is ACF’s: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/)
It has a release date of Oct 7,2024, but of version 6.3.6.1. (A prior version of ACF)
All 11 years of ACF reviews are there – all (of course) overwhelming positive. If you didn’t know what you were looking at, you’d think SCF had been around for all these years, and had all these glowing reviews.
A quick look at the code, and it’s still slugged as “ACF”
WTF. This is so sketchy.
I am immediately ceasing all WP plugin development efforts in response to this and preparing to leave the ecosystem. I am aghast but there is literally no choice. I can’t imagine anyone investing dev time in WP now when it could all be taken away overnight.
This is not a fork