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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by consteval on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:23PM (#41662896)
How is it anti-competitive to stop people smashing your APIs? That shit costs money man. It's not free to provide web resources to hundreds of thousands of people.

WPE is essentially DDOSing WP for free. Obviously that shit doesn't fly. Either pay up or get your own server and host your own shit.

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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by cies on Friday September 27, 2024 @11:41AM (#41671890)
I dont know why you are down voted. I feel exactly the same about it.
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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by consteval on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:02PM (#41672212)
Most likely my tone, but I'm frustrated because I don't even understand how this is a conversation.

If any one of us was hosting a FREE service and some corporation came around and hit us with hundreds of thousands of requests, we too would demand money or ban them. Any one of us. So I really, truly, don't understand why we're all sitting here having this conversation.

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