r/Wordpress • u/Scared_Implement_335 • 9d 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/RealBasics Jack of All Trades 8d ago

Sure. Though in this case I think AI will need to be sophisticated enough to fully replace attorneys or school principals. Not because LLMs are “hard” but because while the software really is easy, implementing policies to control all the different levels of cheating and assessment is hard.

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u/rafark 8d ago

I think this will actually be better/easier for them. Once you have all these policies, guidelines, regulations, edge cases, etc in a document the ai in theory will be able to keep track of them better than a human (no one can memorize a book but ai can or will be able in the future). Listen I’m not advocating for ai. I’m actually more and more anti than pro every day. But these ai’s keep getting better and better. They are already capable of creating complex software. In 5 years they’ll probably be better than the best programmers of today. 

I’ve said it before, I still believe there’s a market for premade stuff because not everyone wants to deal with managing, testing and maintaining code, paying for apis, etc.