EP432 – Solutions to the Active Growth Problem

This week on WPwatercooler we will continue our discussion with John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell from EP23 of Dev Branch about the WordPress plugin repo’s Active Install Growth Chart. In this episode, we’ll focus on the effects of the removal of the chart on the community, including how the data was used by the wider WordPress ecosystem and the community’s response to the removal.

• #6511 new enhancement – Bring back the active install growth chart
• Podz Response om trac ticket – Matt-Bomb “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”

Panel:

• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• John James Jacoby
• Matt Cromwell
• Otto
• Sé Reed

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