WPengine hosts over 1 million sites, and Matt is actively trying to punish them. That is thousands of peoples livelihoods tied to these sites. wtf! Is he going full Elon? Get him out ASAP.
WPengine hosts over 1 million sites, and Matt is actively trying to punish them. That is thousands of peoples livelihoods tied to these sites. wtf! Is he going full Elon? Get him out ASAP.
WPengine hosts over 1 million sites, and Matt is actively trying to punish them. That is thousands of peoples livelihoods tied to these sites. wtf! Is he going full Elon? Get him out ASAP.
I think the correct word for this situation is Disaster
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It’s nice to watch these types of meltdowns from the start. Matt has lost his damn mind.
I’ve been posting Matt is Elon comments all day and I kinda want some credit.
So how do I migrate to Wix? /$
What is WpEngine or it’s owner/founder/ceo saying or doing about all this?
Also, what about WordPress.org?
I understand that this could all stem from WpEngine’s success, and Matt’s greed/jealousy…
But, having a wholesome view would benefit the public, and anyone/anything related to ‘wordpress’, overall.
They stopped updates to WPE. So millions are now having to goto the wordpress, download the plugins and theme updates and install them manually.
Does Automattic own its data centres? If not, I can see WP Engine’s parent company applying a lot of ~~pressure~~ influence to ~~sabotage~~ hamstring Automattic’s infrastructure and daily activities.
I think Matt will announce on Monday that he has a severe UTI infection that affected his cognitive abilities and that he is stepping down for a few months.
Please reach out to Matt and let him know how you feel: [https://ma.tt/contact/](https://ma.tt/contact/)
The is such bullshit
Looks like you’ll be buying all that bandwidth yourself then. Or at least 1/millionth of it.
Matt is trying to punish the sites? Or WPEngine? The fact that WPEngine hosts over 1 million sites doesn’t say anything about their integrity or whether they violated trademark.
In fact, if they did, and they know it (by the way, read some stories of every other business that Silver Lake invests in), then they’re the ones actively punishing those sites by not having resolved this already.
The entire benefit of WP Engine is that they know what to limit, disable, and alter to get the best performance they can out of bloated WP sites. Anyone who ever ran tech support for thousands or more WordPress sites, with clients who had no idea how any of it worked, with sites created by “designers” that thought “we’ll just load this with 60 plugins to do what we want,” should appreciate what WP Engine does. I don’t recommend them to people for a vanilla WordPress experience. I recommend them because people make bloated websites that sometimes need specialty hosting because they refuse to redo their site in a more lightweight way. I don’t know if they’re still as good at that as they used to be, I don’t keep up with that lately, but revisions hardly seems like the hill to die on.
Matt is acting like he was just told to impress investors or be replaced. Maybe he was right about private equity before he walked it back on his own blog, seemingly because he stepped in it with those comments. It’s going to take an incredible twist to save face. I hope he secretly loves WP Engine because he’s about to owe them some money.
Look up what happened with him on Tumblr with predstrogen. He started a whole harassment campaign against one woman who was banned and never explained what she did wrong. His reasoning was that a joke post she made about exploding him in a car crash with hammers like a loony tunes character was a highly detailed death threat. He even followed her to Twitter to harass her and deleted accounts that criticized him with no warning.
He needs to step down ASAP, it’s painfully clear that he’s not emotionally mature enough to run a company.
Here’s some screenshots of the whole thing: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pyh4ca4v4mc0ggrklgd0i/h?rlkey=2se1p4911irku3mw42sp8htrz&e=1&dl=0
I dont think that Matt is out of line here
I think that ANYONE running shared WordPress hosting is a fucking moron. Sorry.
Is called GREED!!!
Urgent WordPress migrations pm me.
Punish them by having to open an FTP app? The hysterics.
They literally can NOT get him out
That’s the problem
The problem is Matt basically has the entire community hostage right now. He’s shown that he’ll block people from the plugin, theme, and core repositories to basically cripple your business. What if someone makes a mirror of them? He’ll likely block those updates too once he figures out the IPs of the mirrors. If you do a full fork of the code, then it’s out of date. There are no good solutions here.
Imagine hosting your livelihood on a platform you don’t get full control over….
Full Elon? lol…
How is WPE different to thousands of hosts that provide one click WP installs etc. Managed is always managed, no matter if it’s on aws, Azure, wpe, Vercel….
Matt must go…
Class action lawsuit against Matt?
It’s wp engine’s job now to find a solution for their customers . So far they have done nothing to help their customers who are charged thousands of dollars every month
Whoever iSight: an action like this shows you are unable to run a company.
Matt is a jerk, yes. But WPEngine is a con artist company. Their prices are crazy and they don’t offer anything special. When I first got into Headless WordPress I tried to use them but they cost so much I almost vomited. I run a very large, high-traffic site that I can run on a $18 VPS from Digital Ocean and another $8 and change from AWS for LambdaEDGE and $4 from S3 and $3 from Route53 and $4 for SES for a grand total of less than $37-ish a month. I run the site with CloudPanel an OpenSource project. The same setup on WPEngine was estimated at $6700 a month. I have NEVER, like not even once in 1+ year had to do anything special to maintain this setup. Do you think WPEngine is worth $6670+ a month to do nothing?
Not only that but if you talk to the sales people they have zero expertise and seem to be zombies. I escalated the call to talk to a manager and I was met with aggression and super nasty energy. I tried to call their sales people on multiple occasions in hopes of getting a different answer.
I also tried hosting a ROOTS WordPress project with them with the same kind of bullshitt-o.
Years ago you could get alll their plugins for 1 price and now days the pricing is individual and costly.
You can actually use Cursor or Claude-DEV and make nearly any plugin within a few hrs if you make mockups and take the time to steer the AI.
WPEngine is a NASTY company.
Im also irritated with WordPress for not going in a Laravel direction with the entire project.
yep
I think the correct word for this situation is Disaster
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It’s nice to watch these types of meltdowns from the start. Matt has lost his damn mind.
I’ve been posting Matt is Elon comments all day and I kinda want some credit.
So how do I migrate to Wix? /$
What is WpEngine or it’s owner/founder/ceo saying or doing about all this?
Also, what about WordPress.org?
I understand that this could all stem from WpEngine’s success, and Matt’s greed/jealousy…
But, having a wholesome view would benefit the public, and anyone/anything related to ‘wordpress’, overall.
They stopped updates to WPE. So millions are now having to goto the wordpress, download the plugins and theme updates and install them manually.
Does Automattic own its data centres? If not, I can see WP Engine’s parent company applying a lot of ~~pressure~~ influence to ~~sabotage~~ hamstring Automattic’s infrastructure and daily activities.
I think Matt will announce on Monday that he has a severe UTI infection that affected his cognitive abilities and that he is stepping down for a few months.
Please reach out to Matt and let him know how you feel: [https://ma.tt/contact/](https://ma.tt/contact/)
The is such bullshit
Looks like you’ll be buying all that bandwidth yourself then. Or at least 1/millionth of it.
Matt is trying to punish the sites? Or WPEngine? The fact that WPEngine hosts over 1 million sites doesn’t say anything about their integrity or whether they violated trademark.
In fact, if they did, and they know it (by the way, read some stories of every other business that Silver Lake invests in), then they’re the ones actively punishing those sites by not having resolved this already.
The entire benefit of WP Engine is that they know what to limit, disable, and alter to get the best performance they can out of bloated WP sites. Anyone who ever ran tech support for thousands or more WordPress sites, with clients who had no idea how any of it worked, with sites created by “designers” that thought “we’ll just load this with 60 plugins to do what we want,” should appreciate what WP Engine does. I don’t recommend them to people for a vanilla WordPress experience. I recommend them because people make bloated websites that sometimes need specialty hosting because they refuse to redo their site in a more lightweight way. I don’t know if they’re still as good at that as they used to be, I don’t keep up with that lately, but revisions hardly seems like the hill to die on.
Matt is acting like he was just told to impress investors or be replaced. Maybe he was right about private equity before he walked it back on his own blog, seemingly because he stepped in it with those comments. It’s going to take an incredible twist to save face. I hope he secretly loves WP Engine because he’s about to owe them some money.
Look up what happened with him on Tumblr with predstrogen. He started a whole harassment campaign against one woman who was banned and never explained what she did wrong. His reasoning was that a joke post she made about exploding him in a car crash with hammers like a loony tunes character was a highly detailed death threat. He even followed her to Twitter to harass her and deleted accounts that criticized him with no warning.
He needs to step down ASAP, it’s painfully clear that he’s not emotionally mature enough to run a company.
Here’s some screenshots of the whole thing:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pyh4ca4v4mc0ggrklgd0i/h?rlkey=2se1p4911irku3mw42sp8htrz&e=1&dl=0
I dont think that Matt is out of line here
I think that ANYONE running shared WordPress hosting is a fucking moron. Sorry.
Is called GREED!!!
Urgent WordPress migrations pm me.
Punish them by having to open an FTP app? The hysterics.
They literally can NOT get him out
That’s the problem
The problem is Matt basically has the entire community hostage right now. He’s shown that he’ll block people from the plugin, theme, and core repositories to basically cripple your business. What if someone makes a mirror of them? He’ll likely block those updates too once he figures out the IPs of the mirrors. If you do a full fork of the code, then it’s out of date. There are no good solutions here.
Imagine hosting your livelihood on a platform you don’t get full control over….
Full Elon? lol…
How is WPE different to thousands of hosts that provide one click WP installs etc. Managed is always managed, no matter if it’s on aws, Azure, wpe, Vercel….
Matt must go…
Class action lawsuit against Matt?
It’s wp engine’s job now to find a solution for their customers . So far they have done nothing to help their customers who are charged thousands of dollars every month
Whoever iSight: an action like this shows you are unable to run a company.
Matt is a jerk, yes. But WPEngine is a con artist company. Their prices are crazy and they don’t offer anything special. When I first got into Headless WordPress I tried to use them but they cost so much I almost vomited. I run a very large, high-traffic site that I can run on a $18 VPS from Digital Ocean and another $8 and change from AWS for LambdaEDGE and $4 from S3 and $3 from Route53 and $4 for SES for a grand total of less than $37-ish a month. I run the site with CloudPanel an OpenSource project. The same setup on WPEngine was estimated at $6700 a month. I have NEVER, like not even once in 1+ year had to do anything special to maintain this setup. Do you think WPEngine is worth $6670+ a month to do nothing?
Not only that but if you talk to the sales people they have zero expertise and seem to be zombies. I escalated the call to talk to a manager and I was met with aggression and super nasty energy. I tried to call their sales people on multiple occasions in hopes of getting a different answer.
I also tried hosting a ROOTS WordPress project with them with the same kind of bullshitt-o.
Years ago you could get alll their plugins for 1 price and now days the pricing is individual and costly.
You can actually use Cursor or Claude-DEV and make nearly any plugin within a few hrs if you make mockups and take the time to steer the AI.
WPEngine is a NASTY company.
Im also irritated with WordPress for not going in a Laravel direction with the entire project.