Jetpack was Mediocre But Free. Now It’s Expensive and Terrible

  • shaylynnhayes

    (@shaylynnhayes)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    I have been a WordPress designer for ten years. I don’t love Jetpack, but I found the site stats to be less confusing for clients than Google Sitekit or other alternatives. I personally have used the stats as a quick overview for years when I didn’t want to get too bogged down by metrics. Now, after 10 years of using Jetpack on the same sites, it is suddenly asking me to pay. I have nothing against businesses wanting to make money, but since Automattic has been reaching its hands deeper into the pockets of unsuspecting .org users; I have to wonder, is .com simply hemorrhaging money? Is this your solution?

    To make matters worse, the “NEW STATS” is the most ridiculous downgrade I’ve seen in recent memory.

    Save your time and go install something else. Also, starting to charge for a functionality that was free for decades without warning is not just scummy, it’s downright predatory.

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  • Plugin Support Animesh Gaurav (a11n)

    (@bizanimesh)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello there – I know that price changes are never easy. We have not made this decision lightly; after providing the Jetpack Stats service for free for many years, it’s not something we can do any longer and remain sustainable. To keep the quality, maintain the development cost for the product, and increase the features, we introduced the paid versions.

    However, we are still providing Stats for free if a site a completely non-commercial. If you share the site address with us we can confirm if you can have free stats or not.

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