[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6511: Bring back the active install growth chart

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#6511: Bring back the active install growth chart
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 Reporter:  markzahra         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high              |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by elrae):

 Replying to [comment:9 matt]:
 > Thank you for the feedback, and I do realize that there were a number of
 third party commercial and free services scraping these data en masse and
 using it.
 >
 > If someone has reasons to bring it back that haven't been presented
 above already, please add it to this thread so we have the best possible
 presentation of that side of the argument to consider.

 We still haven't gotten concrete answers as to why it was removed other
 than it prevented obfuscation and now vague insinuations people are
 scraping the data. If you have actual arguments on why it shouldn't be
 brought back, please supply those so it can be considered as well. If the
 data is being scraped, enable rate limits and blocks on the offending IPs
 and scrapers. There's tons of other stuff I'm sure being scraped and
 downloaded daily but those don't get removed.

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