Goodbye WordPress

Yesterday I decided to delete my account and contributions on both WordPress.com, WordPress.org and Gravatar following WordPress CEO actions in the last weeks. This ends around 15 years of using WordPress.

WordPress was one of my favorite tool to build almost anything and I found immense joy with it. However in the past weeks its CEO started to act like a bully going as far as stealing shamelessly other's people work.

I'd like to think Matt is the only one acting like this. But the true is that he's unfortunately not. I'm tired of CEO acting like high school bullies and exhausted of their ways of handling employees concerns through "like it or leave it policies" on the pretence of "aligning with a company culture". You can't build anything without discussion, neither can you build anything worth it by surrounding yourself of only like-minded individuals.

This last crop of CEO acting like despotic bullies are a curse on any company or product and won't lead to anything good. I hope that Matt Mullenweg will step down from WordPress, but if I have to infer based on several CEO's behaviour in the last months, it's highly unlikely.

In the meantime, I'm happy to have built my own little corner of the Internet and to be able to avoid using any of those maniacs tools. But it seems we open the floodgates to more and more unhinged power hungry people and I'm afraid of what's to come.