[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 podz):

 11 days

 97 responses

 Last response from Matt Mullenweg was 6 days ago

 As an ex-employee of Automattic - who am I? - search for Podz -
 https://ma.tt/2006/04/a-little-funding/ - I left Automattic in April 2020
 at a time and date of my choosing - I cannot emphasise enough that this
 thread, this protest, this THING THAT AFFECTS YOU - you the plugin
 creators which helped propel WP to what it is today - will NOT be changed
 by this thread.

 Matt's MO is to deliver a Matt-Bomb which is effectively "This Is My
 Decision And That Is That". Commonplace within Automattic.

 This decision is a Matt-Bomb.

 His other MO is to ignore everyone until they tire of protesting and stop.
 Look at this thread and see how the protesting is slowing, stopping.
 He knows he is winning and he doesn't give a flying crap about you.

 If - and this really is on you - you believe this is
 - fundamentally wrong
 - that Matt has gone from BDFL to DFL
 - that Matt is prioritising Automattic over WordPress
 - that Matt has pulled a long con of "Extend, Embrace, Extinguish"
 - that you can more eloquently explain how this is hugely detrimental
 then you have to change how you are engaging with this decision by Matt
 and take the facts to other sites.

 Making noise here as useful as throwing snowballs at an inferno.
 Yep, I too am such a snowball but my target is not Matt.
 It's you.

 Here's a quote from WPTavern:
 "Even if 10,000 people commented and appeared to agree that would still be
 a small fraction of the wider WP community,” Mullenweg responded. “That’s
 one of the hardest things to navigate in open source, and product and
 community development generally."
 Hands up anyone apart from Matt or (a staggeringly small number of)
 Automattic employees who thought that Gutenberg was a good idea.
 Matt is very clearly telling all plugin developers that he does not give a
 flying crap about you.

 WP Classic Editor stands at 5 million+ installs...

 Here's a thing: one of Matt's long term goals is to get John Gruber of
 Daring Fireball to move to WP. This is one of the reasons Markdown is
 supported by WP. How would John Gruber feel if he did move and Matt pulled
 the rug on something? How would JG's followers feel if they jumped
 platform too?

 This would seem to be very important:
 Canonical Plugins.
 Go read this:
 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/
 Selective quote:
 "Documentation: Experiment with adding more inline documentation to wp-
 admin interfaces."
 I was asking for this back in 2004/5!
 I was asking for this when I joined Automattic
 I was asking for it even more when the "Calypso" admin interface for
 wordpress.com blogs was - I'd like to say launched but it was more that it
 was thrown into water and watched as it slowly slowly drowned over years
 ....
 What happened?
 NOTHING
 Until now
 Nothing until the day Matt decides what Automattic will do with regard to
 plugins. Some nonsense about inline docs where if people click it that
 could be a negative, or maybe someone just clicked a ? to see what
 happened, or maybe they were stuck and the ? screen helped them, or they
 clicked the ? and realised the plugin was not what they needed and
 uninstalled. What information will Automattic give you? Probably none.

 Who has all the data about plugins?
 Matt

 Regular readers of Hacker News will be aware of posts along the lines of
 "I made and sold this app for iOS, Apple copied it, banned me and now I'm
 broke"

 Who had all the data about apps?
 Apple

 Usual response on HN?
 It's along the lines of "Don't build apps for walled gardens"

 Again, who has all the data about WP plugins
 The CEO of Automattic

 I will not post again (maybe) to this thread because I do not know how I
 can better spell things out.
 Matt Mullenweg is very happy to have you help make WP what it is
 And now he will be keeping the entire pie for himself

 I first met Matt in London 2005.
 He seemed to be a decent guy
 Somewhere since then something changed.

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