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ACF has been hijacked


It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.

It seems to be an announcement of an organization that includes a news site, a class action lawsuit, and some other things. The whole thing seems strange, but I’m assuming that Mullenweg wrote the blog post to make fun of potential WordPress forks. The bigger issue happened on Saturday when Automattic hijacked the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin.

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