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Comment by sd9 | Hacker News Reader

This post is wild. Mullenweg comes across as completely unstable, insecure, and appears to feel very threatened. He takes every opportunity he can to give a thinly veiled insult.

Wordpress is a giant. If he’s as confident as he tries to present in this post, he could just do nothing and Wordpress would prove the more valuable software in the end. Instead, he’s accelerating progress on the fork.

He could have done with taking a few deep breaths before publishing this post.

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Have you followed this at all? The man has been in HN threads arguing about posts about himself for months. He's on some kind of scorched earth ego trip.

His profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt

It feels like this decade or so is defined by people who just don't know when to fade out and retire with their legacies intact.

Whether it be this guy, elderly politicians, or billionaires with social media addictions, everyone's lives would be far better, including their own, if they simply knew when to stfu and enjoy their success in peace.

Unlike famously chill billionaires of the past like William Randolph Hearst or Howard Hughes

Unfortunately it seems like it might be the dawn of the era of demagogues aka mob rule :/

I see he’s back to posting again. Do we think he fired his lawyers or that they quit?

Interesting his karma is currently 20XX. If I had to guess, it was probably significantly higher before this whole thing blew up?

IIRC karma losses from downvoting are capped at 3 or 4 per comment.

I don't recall when this adventure started, but going through the Wayback Machine his karma was 1.7k around December 2023[1] and then climbed to 1.8k around September 2024[2] and then just a hair under 2.1k around October 2024[3].

So if anything, it seems his karma increased since the saga began.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20231220230743/https://news.ycom...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240930175846/https://news.ycom...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20241013035048/https://news.ycom...

I even asked Matt to sue me just for lulz and my 2 minutes of fame. Hehe

He threatened to sue the person behind bullenweg.com (https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134), so if you're really interested you could revive it. The repo is at https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io and there's another mirror available at bullenweg.org.

I think down voting photomatt is immature and unconstructive. Whether you agree or disagree with his opinion, I think his views are quite central to a discussion on what is going on.

Down votes hides posts. I don't understand why so many HN'er wants Matt's comments removed from HN threads about WP.

I think you misunderstand entirely. HN wants Matt removed from the internet, and for good reason.

As someone who hasn’t been following this at all. It seems like I’m watching a digital mob go after a heretic which is interesting.

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