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Michael Fienen (@fienen.bsky.social) @fienen

Host of The @DrunkenUX Podcast. Work with most things web, Buddhist(ish), theatre geek, playwright, fountain pen guy, scotch nut.

Joined March 2008
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I think I'm gonna pretty much be done with Twitter, at least for a while. Come find me at Bluesky bsky.app/profile/fienen.bsky…
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Elon Musk's been breaking federal law since before the election. The fact that he's continuing w/ impunity tells you all you need to know about the GOP. Democracy is dead to them, they kneel before the oligarchy like peasants. B/c, that's exactly the way that relationship works.
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Everybody watch out! I'm reading TWO books at once. Like a MADMAN.
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I'm running three fantasy football leagues, and I'm absolutely BURNING through quarterbacks.
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Do I know anyone that's tried out Dead Island 2? Thumbs up or down? Better or worse than the first?
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If Matt keeps up his current strategy, WP Engine might end up owning Automattic when it's all said and done. From the filing for an immediate injunction against Automattic:
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The WordPress subreddit is burning.
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Luc Princen@LucP
9 Oct 2024
"Financially associated with WP Engine" also means having a ACF Pro license, a WPDB Migrate Pro license, an WP Offload Media license or donating to LocalWP, by the way.
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Vinny Green@vinnysgreen
10 Oct 2024
hell yeah, this is the stuff you fire off when you feel the walls closing in...
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Maarten Belmans@PoeHaH
9 Oct 2024
Ok, this is getting ridiculous...
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Andrew@arniepalmer
9 Oct 2024
Matthew Charles Mullenweg, what is this. Death by a thousand cuts?
Screenshot of a WordPress.org login page with fields for username or email address and password. The username field is filled with "thisisan" and there is a checkbox stating "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise." There's also a "Remember Me" option and a "Log In" button, as well as "Lost password?" and "Create an account" links below. The page footer allows language selection, currently set to English.

ALT Screenshot of a WordPress.org login page with fields for username or email address and password. The username field is filled with "thisisan" and there is a checkbox stating "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise." There's also a "Remember Me" option and a "Log In" button, as well as "Lost password?" and "Create an account" links below. The page footer allows language selection, currently set to English.

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Alex Mansfield@alexmansfield
9 Oct 2024
Please consider my plugins hosted on wordpress.org to be abandoned. When @photomatt was asked if owning an ACF license banned users from logging into .org, he replied "Consult an attorney" See:
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Luc Princen@LucP
9 Oct 2024
Since one of my customers still hosts with WP Engine, I am financially associated with WP Engine. So now, after contributing for 13 years, I am no longer allowed to contribute to WordPress. What the actual fuck.
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THEN WHY ADD THE CHECKBOX IN THE FIRST PLACE, MATT???
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CNN needs a lesson in map keying. #UX #UserExperience #infographic #map #interactivemap
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WordPress just willfully feeding evidence to WP Engine's lawyers is such a stupid and wild thing to see happening in real time.
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Listening to a lawyer go through the WordPress/WP Engine drama is very cathartic. Also nicely validating of my overall opinion and expectations on how this will probably go. twitch.tv/videos/2261286307

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If there's one takeaway from @photomatt's sudden temper tantrum against @wpengine, it's how desperately the community needs real governance present in WordPress's development and management. This isn't the first time Matt's ego has harmed the community, but it should be the last.
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Remember, Automattic INVESTED IN WP ENGINE several years ago, and then chose to divest themselves. Funny how there was no issue with the business practices then, which haven't changed significantly in the intervening time.
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@wpengine
26 Sep 2024
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, has misused his control of WordPress to interfere with WP Engine customers’ access to WordPress.org, asserting that he did so because WP Engine filed litigation against Wordpress.org. This simply is not true. Our Cease & Desist letter was a letter – not a lawsuit – and was directed at Automattic for Matt’s pattern of serious and repeated misconduct – behavior that must stop for the health and stability of the entire community. Matt Mullenweg’s unprecedented and unwarranted action interferes with the normal operation of the entire WordPress ecosystem, impacting not just WP Engine and our customers, but all WordPress plugin developers and open-source users who depend on WP Engine tools like ACF. We are taking immediate steps to remediate the impact of this action. We remain steadfastly committed to supporting WP Engine customers, users, and the entire WordPress community.
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I almost want to do a special episode of Drunken UX to go over the WordPress situation. From the dishonest, shady statements and arguments coming from the WordPress/Matt side, to the outright dismissal of users' concerns, this will do damage to the WP community for years to come.
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