I don't use WP Engine or WordPress, so I don't have a side in this fight.
As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me.
@photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]"
If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context.
That, and the whole thing about Matt M going on a scathing rant about how bad WPEngine supposedly is[0], supposedly because they don't support WP page revision control as well as he'd like. Seems a bit over-the-top and breathless to me.
I figure the whole thing is a corporate whine-fest over who makes more money from actually hosting Wordpress sites.
Seems unlikely though? Matt wrote a post on the web, ie he had unlimited length available to him. If the dispute is over employee contributions, then he should have made that the focus of his complaint.
cldellow|1 year ago
As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me.
@photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]"
If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context.
[5135]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174
mthoms|1 year ago
He has... a bit of reputation.
ufmace|1 year ago
I figure the whole thing is a corporate whine-fest over who makes more money from actually hosting Wordpress sites.
[0] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/
x0x0|1 year ago