Alex Standiford

To the people who used to work on those StellarWP brands, I feel for you viscerally right now.

For people like us, these jobs were special. They were at a special time in WordPress in a liminal space where remote work was new and cool, everyone is happy to be there, and everyone genuinely cares and loves each-other’s company.

I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time the last several years trying to find work like that again, and I genuinely don’t know if those places even exist anymore.

So much so, that one of my core reasons for making my own business now is to try to recreate that again. I miss it. I see people around me grieve about the loss of it, and I would give anything to create that again. Someday, maybe.

I know for you this is laden with grief, and I am thinking of all of you constantly, but particularly this week. Take care of yourself.

It’s okay to grieve that, and don’t for one second think that it “was just a job”, because we all know these places were so much more than that.