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c/techtakes · by dgerard@awful.systems · 1y

Mullenweg/Automattic offers a *second* round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters

https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

archive: https://archive.is/AKASQ

37 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world

7 Comments

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business · 16 pts · 1y

So he's added 50% more severance (6 -> 9 months) to this round of loyalty purges, AND is snooping on employees email?

Part of me is sad, but the rest of me wants more popcorn since I can't wait for Act 3.

dgerard@awful.systems · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

mullenweg pissing you off? you should totally replace WordPress with [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn't have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

froztbyte@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y

"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"

dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y

acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn't a confession it's a brag

jessamyn@glammr.us · 5 pts · 1y

@dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.

ffg@a2mi.social · 5 pts · 1y

@dgerard

I feel seen.

https://freeke.org/ffg/mine-all-mine.html

froztbyte@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y

Mullenweg’s plumbing levels of Posting Through It previously unknown to science