WordPress Drama: Is It Worth It?

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by boardBy Sarah PerezRead original post → I have been holding off on writing about Matt Mullenweg and everything happening around WordPress because I wanted to make sure I wasn't just reacting to the latest round of drama. I don't know Mullenweg personally, just like I don't know Elon Musk. But the more I watch his public actions and statements, the more I see a similar pattern. That pattern is what bothers me. It is the attitude of: "I built this, I know what is best, and if you don't like the way I run it, there's the door." With Musk and Twitter, at least the situation is fairly clear. Musk bought the company, took it private, and Twitter is a closed commercial platform. I may not like what he does with it, but there isn't much ambiguity about whose platform it is. So I left. WordPress is different, but increasingly it feels like it is being treated the same way. So I left that too. Automattic is privately…

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