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@studiotwee I have (or in fact – had) some sympathy for MM’s point. I think there is nuance – and it’s certainly disingenuous for anyone who claims that WPE don’t give anything back – they do. I do agree that commercial entities should contribute more back. But that’s an ethical should and not a legally enforceable should.

But – any sympathy I did have has been entirely removed by MM’s actions and the rapidity with which he’s carried them out. This whole last couple of weeks has shown how fragile WordPress (the org) is. We apparently have a single figure who can literally at will turn off a feed to a competitor (let’s not forget that subtle little wrinkle here…) and then in a completely underhand way take probably the most important plugin in the ecosystem and shift its ownership in the way I’ve described above. This is not healthy, and your defence of his actions is similarly abhorrent.

Here’s how this would not be theft: taking an existing plugin, forking it, and then starting from scratch with zero users and installs. That’s all good, and Automattic could have done that – and built up a user base quickly and effectively given their marketing reach and spend.

Taking an existing plugin and – by stealth – changing the name but leaving the slug intact so that you’ve effectively switched 2m+ users from Plugin1 maintainer (trusted) to Plugin2 maintainer (dodgy as f*** right now) is theft. And it’s equivalent to a supply chain attack too, a security risk.

Matt has a point about big commercial entities giving back to O/S. But this is a shitty, awful way of going about things and any sympathy I and the community might have had for his position is rapidly disappearing.

Thanks, look forward to it ??

@jeff – so sorry, I realise that I never replied to you – thank you so much, this was brilliantly helpful ??

I’m personally most concerned because we’re heavy users of ACF and custom fields in general and I haven’t yet got a clear view about the support for this in the future.

I’ve reached out to ACF to comment on this, but are there any thoughts from inside the build community on what the future might hold in this regard?

@hoffcamp – thanks loads, I didn’t realise you could do that. Will give it a go.

Brilliant plugin – thank you, means I don’t have to buy Gravity!

One thing though – when forms come in you ideally want the from address to be that of the user who has filled in the form. The natural thing you’re going to do is click “reply”.

At the moment, the forms seem to always come from [admin email] – is there a way of changing this so they come from a field specified in the form itself (ie [user email] ) ?

cheers