Breach of trust by automatically re-linking all users’ sites.

  • The recent ‘fork’ is a huge breach of trust in the repository.

    I can understand the disagreement between www.remarpro.com and wpengine.com. I can understand (but do not entirely agree) with removing wpengine from the repository, and telling them to host on their own infrastructure. I can almost even understand whole cloth forking GPL code from ACF as a new plugin. (although it would be better to just integrate more flexible content handling in WordPress core)

    However, I do not understand how it can be considered reasonable to replace all links to users’ sites. This is dependency hijacking, and it reeks similar to the polyfill.io situation.

    I am very glad I have auto-updates turned off.

    • This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by pixelsnader.
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