Login

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
wandering.shop is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Wandering.Shop aims to have the vibe of a quality coffee shop at a busy SF&F Convention. Think tables of writers, fans and interested passers-by sharing drinks and conversation on a variety of topics.

Administered by:

Server stats:

875
active users

wandering.shop: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#automattic

9 posts7 participants0 posts today
Dan Q<p>I'm off for a week of full-time volunteering with Three Rings at 3Camp, our annual volunteer hack week: bringing together our distributed team for some intensive in-person time, working to make life better for charities around the world.</p><p>And if there's one good thing to come out of me being suddenly and unexpectedly laid-off two days ago, it's that I've got a shiny new laptop to do my voluntary work on (Automattic have said that I can keep it).</p><p><a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/note" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>note</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/threeRings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threeRings</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/volunteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volunteering</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laptop</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automattic</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>employment</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/devcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devcamp</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/hackathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackathon</span></a></p><p>Via: 🔗 <a href="https://danq.me/2025/04/04/3camp-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danq.me/2025/04/04/3camp-2025/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
George Hotelling<p>WP Engine should offer free <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> hosting for a year to people laid off by <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automattic</span></a> yesterday, since they're no longer getting free hosting from .com.</p>
Alda Vigdís<p>The biggest surprise to me about the current <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a> layoffs isn't the scale of it or that they're discriminating against those that were older than 40 — it's that there was a QA team.</p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>layoffs</span></a> </p><p>'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/word</span><span class="invisible">press-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/</span></a></p>
echo ✨<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/word</span><span class="invisible">press-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automattic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tumblr</span></a></p>
Dan Q<p>Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.</p><p>Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?</p><p>CV at: <a href="https://danq.me/cv/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danq.me/cv/index.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/note" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>note</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>automattic</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/memorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memorable</span></a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>employment</span></a></p><p>Via: 🔗 <a href="https://danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Search Engine Journal: Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027. “A leaked WordPress Slack chat shows that Matt Mullenweg is considering limiting future WordPress releases to just one per year from now through 2027 and insists that the only way to get Automattic to contribute more is to pressure WP Engine to drop their lawsuit. One WordPress developer who read that message […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/14/search-engine-journal-mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/14/search-engine-journal-mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/</a></p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>Recent experience: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a>: refuses to remove <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> and fails to remove copyright violations despite DMCA reports. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>: refuses to remove disinformation but claims it will disable or remove copyright infringements ‘soon’ (as of March 6) but has failed to do so to date.<br> I guess they only help big companies āe.</p>
Darnell Clayton :verified:<p>If this is true then only <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@wordpressdotcom/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wordpressdotcom</span></a></span> would receive updates while the rest of the <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> community withers. </p><p>👉🏾 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@photomatt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>photomatt</span></a></span> Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027 <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/541821/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">searchenginejournal.com/mullen</span><span class="invisible">weg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/541821/</span></a></p><p>I am not a lawyer or time traveler, but from Matt’s odd statements, it appears that <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/WPEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WPEngine</span></a> may actually win their lawsuit against <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a>.</p><p>Matt on the other hand is “cutting off his nose to spite his face” with these measures, which is baffling honestly.</p>
malte<p>Any ActivityPub/Wordpress wizards out there? When I post a blog to AP and people like or boost it on Mastodon and other places, I need to manually accept those interactions from the Wordpress interface. I can understand comments need to be accepted to avoid spam on the blog. But what's the purpose of the other stuff? <a href="https://radikal.social/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> <a href="https://radikal.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://radikal.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>According to this article: <a href="https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/wordpress-wp-engin</span><span class="invisible">e-preliminary-injunction/</span></a> Automattic has a deadline of 72 hours from the judge&#39;s order to take down the new WordPress login checkbox that makes users declare they have no connection to WP Engine.</p><p>How much you want to bet Matt Mullenweg&#39;s put something in place to push the change at 71 hours and 59 minutes? It seems like just the kind of pettiness that&#39;s been his signature lately.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Automattic</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MattMullenweg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattMullenweg</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>
Amadi Lovelace<p>A few days ago I praised <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MattMullenweig" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattMullenweig</span></a> from <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Automattic</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WordPress</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tumblr</span></a> as someone trying to be a good contributor to web culture.</p><p>He is currently doing a live stream for Tumblr users, and in response to an epileptic user asking if there could be a standard to prevent vibrant, strobing ads as they’re a seizure risk, he made some vague noises like “yeah I guess” then instantly uggested that the user buy the no-ad upgrade. </p><p>Paywalled accessibility? Like hell. </p><p>I rescind my praise.</p>
SearchLive feeds
About