I guess the pettiness can continue to reach new lows

What an asshole.

Indeed

Reading it I'm not sure if this is just a unilateral communist-style purge or an actual fork launch (or both). Here's hoping the fork gets off the ground and removes most of the pressure creating this nastiness that isn't helping anyone.

Just pointing out with gpl forks, if egos will allow it, code can be shared both ways. That's much easier if bridges are still standing.

There is no fork at the moment, there was only discussion of how to move releases forward on PostStatus Slack. It's a purge.

None of the banned people mentioned a fork, some don't even have anything to do with wordpress other than commenting about the drama on twitter. The whole post is matt gaslighting to justify the purge.

> None of the banned people mentioned a fork

Steady on, at least one of them wrote a big blog post on his own site Dec 20 basically prematurely accepting the honour.

https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/

I can imagine the excessive smugness there about 'taking back the commons' triggered the purge.

"When I see what people create with WordPress, some days I feel like I’m grinding pigment for Leonardo da Vinci or a slitting a quill for Beethoven."

"the SEO space, an industry known for making the web better"

this... this guy is fully cooked.

I think the second quote was a pretty sick burn, not his personal belief.