That company sounds like a clusterfuck. Good luck attracting good talent with such dysfunctional leadership.

A lot of WordPress enterprise users will be upset after finding out that after paying $20-100k a month, Wordpress actually poaches their employees. Just inspect a Wordpress enterprise site's response to certain endpoints using cURL or Postman, it will actually tell you to apply for Automattic. I have been meaning to write about this for a very long time.

	▲	meric_ an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Eh I mean this is common default no? If you inspect element on many sites it links to the career page. Reddit, discord, etc. Maybe a little distasteful since I suppose since these WordPress sites are not owned by WordPress, but I wouldn't really say it's unique or necessarily poaching

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saghm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Might by time for another employee buyout? https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272867/automattic-empl...

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subarctic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Too bad because they have some incredible products

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stackghost an hour ago | parent [-]

All I know is Wordpress and Beeper, are any of their other products good? Like isn't WooCommerce an absolute also-ran compared to Amazon, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, etc?

	▲	dofm 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Woocommerce is everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. Over four million stores. About a third of all non-big-box/amazon online shopping runs through Woocommerce installations. Much more than Shopify, which is the next biggest. Because it’s a plugin for WP you might not ever notice a store is Woocommerce until you get the store emails that people often don’t customise much. It’s fully possible to run a Woocommerce store without giving anyone a cut beyond your payment provider’s normal cut. It’s not too difficult to extend; custom payment gateways and order processing hooks, inbound APIs, GraphQL etc. If you are judicious about your install — just run Woocommerce, WP, customise one of the core themes or a well-known good theme like WP-Start or an Anders Noren theme, use the Stripe or Paypal payment gateway, it’s pretty solidly secure, too; you’ll get automatic updates. It’s not the most fun thing to administer, but it’s not Magento at least.
	▲	jimmydddd 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Not an enterprise product, but SimpleNote is great. I was happy that they bought it.
	▲	sphars 40 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm a fan of PocketCasts as my podcast app on Android. It was bought by Automattic in 2021.