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   Shawn Hooper (he/him) (shawnhooper@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 07:26:39 JST Shawn Hooper (he/him)

   Automattic is forking the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, which is owned by WP Engine.

   https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/

   #WordPress

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 07:26:37 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Tim Nolte

     @tim To be fair, I think Thesis proved no WP business that offends Matt is safe. We all (me for sure) just ignored the warnings then. @shawnhooper

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     Tim Nolte (tim@mastodon.timnolte.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 07:26:38 JST Tim Nolte

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     @shawnhooper My personal feelings about ACF aside, what this says is that no one should be building any sort of business on WordPress. If you piss Matt off he is going to use all of his resources to put you out of business.

     I can't wait to be fully out of the WordPress world and have left all of this garbage behind. This is not the WordPress I fell in love with 20 years ago.

     #WordPress

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 07:28:28 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Tim Nolte
     • Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅

     @emaechler I would say this is even worse. Amazon at least tries to hide the fact. Matt stole the slug, users, forum posts and everything. @tim @shawnhooper

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     Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅ (emaechler@mastodon.maechler.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 07:28:30 JST Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅

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     • Tim Nolte

     @tim @shawnhooper he is doing the same as amazon. copy top seller products from the own customer.... is that the futur?

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 08:13:06 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Tim Nolte
     • Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅

     @emaechler Fair. Hide was is the wrong word. They didn't just automattically steal the users though. @tim @shawnhooper

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     Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅ (emaechler@mastodon.maechler.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 08:13:07 JST Eric-Oliver Mächler ✅

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     • Chris Wiegman
     • Tim Nolte

     @chris @tim @shawnhooper amazon tries to hide? where :P

     it's a shot in the foot what matt did here. i've spoken to several programmers who have their own plugins (like me) and they won't publish any more in the archive but via their own websites with their own update routine