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@stkjj @mwabilimwagodi @KaranjaMatindi Isn't it amazing how Lars Windhorst, German Wunderkind and protegee by chancellor Kohl, kept finding investors? Somehow that is a remarkable talent. Or a confirmation that we in Germany like to fall for guys like Benko, Real Estate Schneider and Windhorst.

@mwabilimwagodi @KaranjaMatindi Sad to say, but he's an amateur. Here's the German Kairo: youtu.be/8g9o7ISII6M

When I actually think about it, Khalif Kairo has been live tweeting his con game. That stolen money is actually in the Cayman and he is now going to start a new life with it elsewhere. This is the greatest heist of the 21st century. He is not coming back to Kenya.

@stkjj @KenyanSays Better than waiting for an earthquake.

@KenyanSays These cars are bought mostly by old chaps and they are happy for any help on the backseat action. 🤡

Okay make me understand why the car is bouncing?

@stkjj @PrairieBuilders Since when is snoring a performance that people want to see, let alone pay for? 😴😉

@PrairieBuilders Can I raise entry fees for anyone watching my performance in bed?

Bedroom design. Your thoughts?

@ajaydsouza This happens frequently if users are focused on the issue they want to solve and don’t care about the efforts others make to provide support. Sometimes they ask on several forums hoping for faster solutions. Sometimes users solve the problem themselves and even forget they asked.

How often do you have support requests where the person disappears and never responds to you after the initial submission.

@chip_bennett @JJ__indy Due to complications during the birth, my wife and our daughter would both have died without a caesarean section. It wasn't even my wife's decision. How dare anyone say that she failed?

@JJ__indy WTH?!? That woman birthed a human. That is a massive success.

This is some crazy shit tbh

@DuaneStorey … or translators, volunteers in the support forums, organizers and speakers at WordCamps and meetups worldwide, a11y advocates, etc.

Listen to the person that did it people, all by himself I guess. No credit to the 50,000 plugin or theme authors, or the thousands of core contributors.

@DuaneStorey @chip_bennett @CaseySoftware Perhaps we continue our conversation in six month in a Drupal chat room? 😁 Who knows… 😅

@pixolin @chip_bennett @CaseySoftware If he's competing in the market, then it's the place of everyone in that market to judge. I would personally much rather put a site on WPE than on dot com at this point.

I think matt's right that there was huge confusion in the market place: For example, I thought @WordPress dot org was a part of the open source project, not someone's personal website. I was shocked to learn that wasn't the case

@DuaneStorey @chip_bennett @CaseySoftware There's a lot I didn't understand about how Matt ran A8c and how WordPress.com tried to attract users. If “dinky personal sites” is the business model, he's probably served his customers well. It wasn't my place to judge and I don't want to start that now.

@pixolin @chip_bennett @CaseySoftware Most people I know associate wp dot com with crap service and where you went if you just wanted a dinky personal site without paying.

@CaseySoftware @chip_bennett @WordPress Well. Things have turned out very differently and we would probably all have continued to spend our energies arguing about Gutenberg if Matt hadn't betrayed his loyal community so badly over the last three months. 💔

@pixolin @chip_bennett @WordPress In a reasonable world, the WP Foundation would have forced automattic to be more specific/careful in their trademark usage to not confuse people with dotorg But matt demanding matt not be matt is a long shot

@mikehale @photomatt @automattic This—or he runs an app store for plugins/themes and a yearly plan to access the documentation. Contributors get tokens for free access the documentation. 🤪

I think @photomatt's endgame is to, without warning, shut down .org and go closed sourced. (A huge win for @automattic) He's going to force the #WordPress community to fork WP and see "if they can do it without me" #forcefork

@chip_bennett @CaseySoftware @WordPress Same in the w.org support forums. People google for "WordPress help" and are happy if they find a form field to paste the error message which drives them nuts. I never had a problem with that, but we always kindly asked them to visit the .com-forums.

@CaseySoftware @WordPress I should log back in to StackExchange and see how many posts were closed because the OP was on dot com rather than self-hosted WordPress. I don't ever remember the same issue with any other managed hosting service, including WPE.

@alpipego ❞To shift or not to shift, that is the question…❝ 🎭

@takisbig Could that be a further step to finally announce a yearly plan for access to the WordPress repositories and documentation for all website owners and developers?

Post economic toddler now fears he might go bankrupt, but god forbid if he would ever share the burden of supporting #WordPress dot org. No, it's either him or closure. This is how much he cares about this community and ecosystem.

@Storm_Barnicle @ckmontague @photomatt I agree it's pure speculation. Fear mongering wasn't intended. Theme developers already have a hard time. If you decide to go the FSE path, you can basically set up any layout yourself (given you are not an absolute beginner).

@Storm_Barnicle Ya, maybe. But getting louder.

@Storm_Barnicle @ckmontague @photomatt Visiting a WordCamp costs about 1,000 € – flight, hotel, food, tickets, SIM card… Giving a session at meetups is less expensive as it's only travel costs and using your own equipment. If you volunteer you should consider you could have earned money in that time, too.

@ryanwebdev @tessak22 They are awesome, especially with the noise cancelling—as long as I don't move or yawn. Then they fall like raisins out of my ear. Is that just me?

@tessak22 As a non apple user I use these.... amazon.com/soundcore-Canc…

I'm sick of buying new AirPods every 6 months. Is there a competing product for in-ear headphones?

@alvarogois @Wonderm00n @Bovelett @Tom_Voltz1 Futuristic. 👍🏻 Now soome catering with Pastel de nata and we are all booked. German railway (Deutsche Bahn) has become so bad, that we believe everything in the world must be better. Riding on the roof of trains is still an exception though.

@Wonderm00n @pixolin @Bovelett @Tom_Voltz1 Here it is, near my home at Entroncamento. I mean, this is a refurbished 1950s Swiss Allan diesel train (yes, that old). I imagine the carbon footprint of this beast.

I am looking into traveling to WordCamp Portugal by train from Germany in May. But none of the online portals seems to provide info for that. @Wonderm00n @alvarogois Do you have any ideas?

@alvarogois @Bovelett @Tom_Voltz1 @Wonderm00n time travel in 50's train sound so romantic 😉

@Bovelett @Tom_Voltz1 @Wonderm00n @pixolin You can travel from Badajoz to Lisboa by train but it'll take longer than a flight from Germany and would seem like a time travel in a 1950s train. The only perk would be to change trains near my home in Entroncamento. Not worthy.

@ckmontague @Storm_Barnicle @photomatt Apparently Matt has already declared Game over.

Yeah, same here—I’d walk if that ever happened. Honestly, I wouldn’t give WordPress a dime unless @photomatt stepped back and let the community create an independent board to oversee WordPress.org’s future. Adding a payment structure like that would destroy what makes WordPress great: its accessibility and open nature. If they put up a barrier like that, WordPress can say goodbye to its 40% market share. Developers and users will move to platforms that stay true to their values. Trust is everything in a community-driven ecosystem, and moves like this would completely erode it. Once that trust is gone, it’s game over.