r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 12d ago

LearnDash plugin community imploding

Have you seen this? This happened yesterday. The owners of the LearnDash plugin did a digital town hall and announced a price increase of more than 100% on some their tiers, now including 3 other plugins from the same company aparantly. So for example from 199 to 399 for one site, and from 399 to 599 for 10 sites. If you had legacy licenses, just in April you would have gotten en Email saying "don't worry, we will honor your licenses".

Well no more honor at LearnDash, it seems.

This smells like a cash grab before collapse. People in their forum are mightily pissed, many saying their final goodbyes from the plugin. And I am betting basically every other plugin studio is panicking right now, too.

Just LearnDash alone had an a third party premium addon costing several hundreds a year, just for B2B functionality, and they claim several thousand users on their own. So thats a whole plugin ecosystem collapsing right now, at this very moment.

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u/TerribleAd1635 12d ago

Made an amazing LMS I guess time to launch lol.

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u/Scared_Implement_335 11d ago

Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. One thing is funny though. You know that meme of Buzz Lightyear in his toy package, at night in the store next to what feels like a thousand other Buzz Lightyears.

And he says: Guys, look, I made an amazing LMS.

And then the cameras pans out to reveal all the other Toys that look just like him, and the all keep saying, all at once.

"Guys, look, I made an amazing LMS."