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Its not about revision history. That's just one of 429 contradictory reasons that matt has given for why he's doing this. Dont take ANYTHING that guy says at face value - he's a psychopath

Youre absolutely right though - WP dot com is by far the worst offender of his own standards.

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Revision history is the only fig leaf here though about wp-engine being "bastardized wordpress" ?

I suppose I understand the argument about wp-engine using significant wordpress.org resources has some merit (but is entirely unrelated to the bastardization argument) if wp-engine is just fetching things like wordpress updates and plugin lists and plugin updates, etc, all directly from wordpress.org servers on a per-blog basis but I find it hard to believe that wp-engine doesn't cache or have their own layer for that.

at some point the disagreement about revision history will be settled through revisionist history

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