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While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.
@tante do you have a trustworthy writedown of what is actually happening there? I tried to understand that around a week ago but what I read from the wordpress guy didn't sound too unreasonable, but apparently I'm missing something and since that whole debate appears highly emotionally charged presumably most sources are strongly biased in one direction or the other.