Wordpress Drama

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Matt hints at real reason he is after WPEngine now

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I made it about ~5 minutes, and gave up due to how incredibly biased this interview purposely was.

The host purposely downplayed what WP Engine offers, and misconstrues them as a 'skin on Wordpress'. He is either completely incompetent when it comes to tech (when he runs a tech channel) or is doing so purposely to create biased perception of WP Engine.

Matt also portrays himself as a victim because 'WP Engine attacking him from all angles'... When he has instigated everything for months, and has escalated things day after day after day.

As far as the nose bleed at the end, I'm just assuming he's developed a huge coke habit because at least that explains his emotional spiral. Could be Santa Ana, but they have not really begun to be problematic yet, and I am in an area that is generally more affected than he is in the Bay Area.
 
You think the WordPress drama is bad? No body has seen the XenForo drama?

The bad guys (that are XenForo or one of their representatives) recently sent a cease and desist letter to some random SMF forum named "xenforohelp.com". Because we don't allow the use of the name "XenForo".

This is categorically untrue and clearly inspired by the recent WordPress events and fabricated by someone (we know exactly who it is, by the way) with an axe to grind. Someone who goes to extraordinary lengths to simultaneously be a part of this community by pretending to be someone else because they are no longer welcome here. Which judging by the number of reports we're getting from members here, is the worst kept secret.

They have "proof". We welcome and look forward to them sharing it. It certainly didn't come from us or one of our representatives. Some people have far too much time on their hands.

For the avoidance of doubt, we have no particular issue with people utilising the name "xenforo" in their URLs, or forum names. The only rule is that it shouldn't be an attempt to mislead or deceive to make it look like it's officially affiliated with us.

Anyway, back to the WordPress stuff. Just thought the parallels of this accusation and the WordPress drama were amusing, given that someone with clearly no imagination dreamt it up after seeing all of this.
 
That post (on the other site) is just stupid.

It's fairly obvious who the author is considering it has been edited numerous times since it was posted, the use of the phrase "pound sand", the reference to anal eze, and the rant about XF developers and add-ons.

So that's at least 2 different pseudonyms now.
 
Lol... XF staff pranking some internet forum pest...
i'll have to laugh at this!
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Chris D said:
You think the WordPress drama is bad? No body has seen the XenForo drama?

The bad guys (that are XenForo or one of their representatives) recently sent a cease and desist letter to some random SMF forum named "xenforohelp.com". Because we don't allow the use of the name "XenForo".

This is categorically untrue and clearly inspired by the recent WordPress events and fabricated by someone (we know exactly who it is, by the way) with an axe to grind. Someone who goes to extraordinary lengths to simultaneously be a part of this community by pretending to be someone else because they are no longer welcome here. Which judging by the number of reports we're getting from members here, is the worst kept secret.

They have "proof". We welcome and look forward to them sharing it. It certainly didn't come from us or one of our representatives. Some people have far too much time on their hands.

For the avoidance of doubt, we have no particular issue with people utilising the name "xenforo" in their URLs, or forum names. The only rule is that it shouldn't be an attempt to mislead or deceive to make it look like it's officially affiliated with us.

Anyway, back to the WordPress stuff. Just thought the parallels of this accusation and the WordPress drama were amusing, given that someone with clearly no imagination dreamt it up after seeing all of this.
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Internet drama?? Say it ain't so!! 🤪😂
 
Matt's gone and initiated a hostile takeover of ACF - anyone who hasn't updated their version of ACF already to point to the new WP Engine hosted version will automatically be upgraded to the new "SCF" WordPress.org version at the next update, whether manual or automatic. 😲

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Chris D said:
You think the WordPress drama is bad? No body has seen the XenForo drama?

The bad guys (that are XenForo or one of their representatives) recently sent a cease and desist letter to some random SMF forum named "xenforohelp.com". Because we don't allow the use of the name "XenForo".

This is categorically untrue and clearly inspired by the recent WordPress events and fabricated by someone (we know exactly who it is, by the way) with an axe to grind. Someone who goes to extraordinary lengths to simultaneously be a part of this community by pretending to be someone else because they are no longer welcome here. Which judging by the number of reports we're getting from members here, is the worst kept secret.

They have "proof". We welcome and look forward to them sharing it. It certainly didn't come from us or one of our representatives. Some people have far too much time on their hands.

For the avoidance of doubt, we have no particular issue with people utilising the name "xenforo" in their URLs, or forum names. The only rule is that it shouldn't be an attempt to mislead or deceive to make it look like it's officially affiliated with us.

Anyway, back to the WordPress stuff. Just thought the parallels of this accusation and the WordPress drama were amusing, given that someone with clearly no imagination dreamt it up after seeing all of this.
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The request was to avoid using XenForo since the initial discussion of how XF would handle the trademark. It is why people with with Xen or XF in their names 🙃.

RobinHood said:
Matt's gone and initiated a hostile takeover of ACF - anyone who hasn't updated their version of ACF already to point to the new WP Engine hosted version will automatically be upgraded to the new "SCF" WordPress.org version at the next update, whether manual or automatic. 😲

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I... do not know how legal this actually is. While the code is GPL, and it is allowed to be forked, this is directly taking over installations after they have purposely blocked the developer from updating their product. They also sell a premium version, which could be viewed as direct business interference.

Even if it is legal, in the context of them being sued for interfering directly with WP Engine's business this is another example they can throw into the court case. At a certain point, even if every action they take is legal, they can still be held accountable for multiple targeted actions 🙃.
 
RobinHood said:
Matt's gone and initiated a hostile takeover of ACF - anyone who hasn't updated their version of ACF already to point to the new WP Engine hosted version will automatically be upgraded to the new "SCF" WordPress.org version at the next update, whether manual or automatic
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Definitely going to rub WordPress developers the wrong way!
 

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