shevekofurras

> he CREATED Wordpress

No he didn't. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked Michel Valdrighi's b2 cafeblog in 2003 to add new features and an admin panel. Wordpress is GPL because b2 was GPL. Matt built most of the early XHTML while Mike integrated patches and worked on the backend. Mike and Ryan Boren wrote large parts of the code early on. Christine Tremoulet came up with the name. Without them b2evolution or one of the other forks would've most likely raced ahead.

The username is changed but the comments remain attached to a single different name.

You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site. They'll delete your account and assign your comments and posts to a random username.

Yes this violates any EU citizen's right to be forgotten under GDPR. Welcome to silicon valley.

Thanks for writing this. It matches my experience 100%. I just signed up to comment because I know people will desperately want it to not be true but there are plenty of us ex-mervilles folk out there who've experienced the cult element and abuse, we just don't talk about it.