Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters
Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
archive: https://archive.is/AKASQ
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.
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
acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn't a confession it's a brag
"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"
@dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.
@dgerard oof. Too soon. Too soon.
Mullenweg’s plumbing levels of Posting Through It previously unknown to science