Matty boy says 'fork off if you disagree'
In a post titled, Forking is Beautiful, Matt writes:
We’re very proud to announce that Vinny Green, a former WordPress community member, has started his fork, FreeWP. We strongly encourage anyone who disagrees with the direction WordPress is headed in to join up with Vinny and create an amazing fork of WordPress.
Vinny's Twitter has a pinned post that reads in part:
Matt is laughing in the community's face. He doesn't respect what the community's built.
And the FreeWP homepage highlights Kellie Petersen's Plea for Automatticians video.
Additionally, Matty boy has updated the WordPress Code of Conduct so that anyone sharing private conversations can be banned from wordpress.org and lose control of their plugins, etc. (via Brian Best on Threads)
Any plugin developer, theme developer, website owner that dissents or shares private conversations can expect to be lose access to wordpress.org. For example, Scott Clark says his access was revoked without explanation. Very you know what you did.