een geode samenvatting (al is het daqr misschien wat lang voor) van de rare dingen in wordpress-land de laatste tijd:

You don’t hurt users because you’re beefing with their host. You don’t put innocent bystanders in harm’s way.

It no longer matters what this was all about at that point, or whether you were originally right or not. You are irreversibly the bad guy now.

It’s also worth calling out a side effect of this move, which may or may not have been deliberate:

Matt’s actions have ensured his hosting companies are now the only WordPress hosts that can guarantee something like this will never happen to their users.

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Procreate komt met een duidelijk statement.