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by yellow_lead 638 days ago
So Matt's mom confused WP Engine for official WordPress and Matt then decided that they are infringing on the WordPress trademark, by using "WP" and calling themselves "#1 platform for WordPress." Then, he threatened WP Engine to pay up or he will go to war against them, and now we are seeing what he meant by that.

Honestly, seems like pretty immature behavior, but it's entertaining at least.
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timkq 638 days ago
His biggest beef with WP Engine is that their code is "bastardized" (???), because it doesn't enable revisions by default for their websites. That's one of the dumbest arguments I've heard. He's trying to convince us that only WP Engine is bad - and all other WP hosting companies are supposedly good.
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yellow_lead 638 days ago
Yep, it sounds like he is jealous/envious that they are making more off of WordPress hosting than Automattic. WordPress being open source makes this even more ridiculous, because he's complaining about modifications to open source software.
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debesyla 638 days ago
Yeah, I expected something more serious (like tracking usage analytics, scrapping data for some content generator or etc.) but it seems like the real problem is a minor function that {a lot} of users don't even know about?
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ivanmontillam 638 days ago
The revisions history disabled feature is more of a scapegoat, imho.

Matt is being unreasonable and petty here. Posts once published, they are rarely edited.

Matt just bursted because of envy. He's used to be pampered with attention.

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