[paulryanrogers]

Did WPEngine maintain their own cache to lessen the load on WordPress.org's plugin repo? If not then that could be a significant cost, which a large hosting provider should cache to minimize their upstream footprint and improve the UX of their own customers.

That said, it seems a modest trademark dispute has gotten way out of hand.

[lolinder]

Yeah, I'm really no longer interested in what WP Engine could or should have been doing. Matt's been trying really hard to distract everyone from the simple fact that he personally has a kill switch that can stop the flow of security updates to millions of WordPress sites and that he will use it.

We host mirrors of NPM for many reasons, but fear that Microsoft will one day bar AWS customers from using the main registry isn't one of them.

Matt doesn't get to use that button and stay a trusted component of anyone's supply chain.