SAsafety1st·Oct 6, 2024
This also exists - https://github.com/bluehost/pluginmirror
Bluehost operated a plugin mirror for a while, and published all their code.
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pluginmirror
WordPress Plugins GitHub Mirror Application
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3Mentions
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68GitHub stars
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What it is
WordPress Plugins GitHub Mirror Application
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Where it is used
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by 3-hour interval3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2024-10-03 07:03:56 UTC to 2024-10-06 07:03:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 3, 06:00 | 2024-10-03 06:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-03 09:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 3, 09:00 | 2024-10-03 09:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-03 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 12:00 | 2024-10-03 12:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-03 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 15:00 | 2024-10-03 15:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-03 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 18:00 | 2024-10-03 18:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-03 21:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 3, 21:00 | 2024-10-03 21:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 00:00 | 2024-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 03:00 | 2024-10-04 03:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 06:00 | 2024-10-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 09:00 | 2024-10-04 09:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 12:00 | 2024-10-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 15:00 | 2024-10-04 15:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 18:00 | 2024-10-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-04 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 21:00 | 2024-10-04 21:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 00:00 | 2024-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 03:00 | 2024-10-05 03:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 06:00 | 2024-10-05 06:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 09:00 | 2024-10-05 09:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 12:00 | 2024-10-05 12:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 15:00 | 2024-10-05 15:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 18:00 | 2024-10-05 18:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-05 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 21:00 | 2024-10-05 21:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 2024-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-06 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 03:00 | 2024-10-06 03:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-06 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 2024-10-06 06:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-06 09:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThey tried to set it up that way and were denied. Apparently the flip side of that is they no longer feel constrained to not "Us[e] the resources of the non-profit you control to kneecap a competitor to the for-profit you control."
So like I said, at this point it's no different than RHEL's very stringent trademark protections, and restrictions on using their update servers (cdn.redhat.com) if you're not paying them. The only difference here is that if WP Engine was itself a non-profit, Matt wouldn't be going after them. RHEL is not as generous.
Apparently these are the new rules. If you're a for-profit entity advertising "Wordpress Hosting" instead of "Hosting with Wordpress installed" and want access to the infrastructure of wordpress.org (which costs millions of dollars a year) you now have to pay, either in cash or equivalent contribu
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tions.
Personally that seems fair. It should have come with a minimum 90 day public notice period, and the stuff about being a cancer etc. is pretty crazy. Changing marketing language and setting up your own plugin mirror like Bluehost did (https://github.com/bluehost/pluginmirror) is not the end of the world.
> Sure, but to do that they'd need to know they are about to be cut off, something which they were given zero warning about
According to Automattic they had been in discussions for 20 months. Your anger should be with WPEngine for taking your money while knowing full well their service depended on servers ran by a company they were on (best case) shaky terms with.
Up until about 8 months ago, Bluehost (another big paid hoster of WordPress sites) ran its own plugin mirror with no issues: https://github.com/bluehost/pluginmirror
In Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]