Comment by minimaxir

2 days ago

Do you have a response to the top comment (among others) which assert that you are mischaracterizing the ruling? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228927

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photomatt  2 days ago

My blog post is my genuine expression of happiness and joy at the ruling. The legal process is slow, and the court date is not until 2027! Reflecting on the strength of the WordPress community, we recently had a great WordCamp US in Portland a few weeks ago.

The case is still happening. I attended the settlement conference, but their CEO did not. There are still many things that need to be worked out through the legal system, and that will take time, but this was a nice moment.

rovr138  1 day ago

And wordcamp. I mean, I'm not sure on the content, but there were less people at least.

> we recently had a great WordCamp US in Portland a few weeks ago.

Based on https://us.wordcamp.org/2025/attendees/, https://us.wordcamp.org/2024/attendees/, and https://us.wordcamp.org/2023/attendees/

Looks like 2023 had 1,449 attendees, 2024 had 1,339, and 2025 had 884.

  • photomatt  8 hours ago

    This data is all transparent. I think what you're looking for is this, which shows about 1,2000 ticktets: https://central.wordcamp.org/reports/ticket-revenue-report/?...

    You can look at reviews of the event, people had a good time. International visitors have been down due to political and immigration issues outside of our control.

    Being there on the ground, it did feel a little spread out, lots of pockets of people connecting, but the venue was pretty huge. We'll try to keep things tighter in Phoenix next year. The upcoming WordCamp in India looks like it will be double the size of any previous ones.