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Comment by chuckadams | Hacker News Reader

When do you plan to add support in the admin UI for alternate source urls for plugins and themes, so that others can more effectively mirror your apparently overtaxed infrastructure?

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Why would I build that? The built-in source works great, for tens of millions of servers.

You are making a public display out of your ability to harm those who you feel have wronged you. It is understandable that some users might want to, in light of this, reduce your ability to harm them. It is also, in a way, understandable that you would not want to help them do this.

> your ability to harm those who you feel have wronged you

Importantly, also his complete and utter inability to separate soldiers from civilians. You can't even be safe knowing that you haven't personally offended Matt—if you do business with anyone who has or with anyone who does business with anyone or...

There's no way for a rational company to keep Matt in their supply chain anymore, he's too volatile.

Because with what you are asking WPEngine, that will be the result. Other hosts will follow to not be taken hostage by your opinions. So if WPEngine creates another repository for their customers and the very popular plugins they acquired, how do you plan on reconciling their solution with WordPress'? What happens once there's several Extend stores? What happens to authors who need to push plugins to all stores? What happens if I'm hosted on wp.com (and I am paying whatever tier allows me to install plugins) who doesn't use WPEngine's plugins repository and I want an updated ACF?

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