"Unfortunately"??

gkoberger an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Unfortunately", because Matt did a lot of good for the internet over the past two decades. WordCamp is (or was) really amazing, the community he built is really great, the Automattic Lounge was cool, he's donated millions of dollars to good causes, and WordPress powers a large portion of the Internet.

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solarkraft an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Automattic also bought Tumblr and Pocket Casts, publishing the code of the latter. I used to have a subscription just to support them.

	▲	dofm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And Simplenote.

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Gualdrapo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh. I still remember back in the Gutenberg launch era and all the drama around it (2018) the internet saying he was the devil for profiting from WP.

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antonvs 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> WordPress powers a large portion of the Internet.

Unfortunately.

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Arnt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He read the commit logs and understood much of what he read. That's deep understanding of the product. That alone puts him in the top few percent of CEOs.

IMO.

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gpm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, it's unfortunate when anyone goes off the deep end.

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solarkraft an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

He still contributed a lot to the world during the good times.