Title: Fork 2.3.5?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Fork 2.3.5?

 *  Resolved [kevinthompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinthompson/)
 * (@kevinthompson)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/)
 * I want to keep using 2.3.5 on all my sites but am worried it might need work 
   down the road to stay compatible with the latest versions of WordPress. Would
   anyone with tech chops be willing to create and maintain a fork? Would be quite
   popular I imagine.
 * Version 3 is a huge step backwards from 2 in my opinion. The realtime analysis
   adds loads of weight to pages – and I don’t need it. The ‘snippet editor’ is 
   just a gimmick. I prefer the old meta description box. And all the onpage.org
   stuff – unnecessary. Oh, and the UX sucks big time.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [madloki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madloki/)
 * (@madloki)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767207)
 * Nice idea! At the moment i use the 2.3.5 and set the version to 9.9.9 – looks
   good, works! I will not use the 3.0.x again, i hate banana software :-/
 *  Thread Starter [kevinthompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinthompson/)
 * (@kevinthompson)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767216)
 * I don’t understand what the Yoast team felt was wrong with 2.3.5…it worked, it
   was easy to use, everyone liked it. 3.x doesn’t add a single good thing! It only
   takes away or degrades.
 *  [madloki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madloki/)
 * (@madloki)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767245)
 * I can answer you: money was the reason.
 *  [jackfelix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackfelix/)
 * (@jackfelix)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767481)
 * This is the sad part. “It worked, it was easy to use, everyone liked it”.
 * Honestly I even prefer the old UI over the new one.
    When I want to enter my 
   meta title and description it just bugs around.
 * Here is the Fork: [https://github.com/senlin/ymbeseo](https://github.com/senlin/ymbeseo)
 *  [saludcasera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saludcasera/)
 * (@saludcasera)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767483)
 * This is a great idea.
 *  Thread Starter [kevinthompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinthompson/)
 * (@kevinthompson)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767486)
 * So glad to see this fork!
 *  [hamellr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamellr/)
 * (@hamellr)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767512)
 * No fork anymore?
 *  [conservativeread](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conservativeread/)
 * (@conservativeread)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767513)
 * Try this
    [https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1dryd2ac3kxv0m/wordpress-seo-2.3.5.zip](https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1dryd2ac3kxv0m/wordpress-seo-2.3.5.zip)?
 *  [Aikar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aikar/)
 * (@aikar)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-235/#post-6767514)
 * Instead of forking, why not work to ensure the bugs you are having are fixed?
 * For content writers, the new snippet box is pretty nice so they can visually 
   see if their copy fits in correctly.
 * The real time is also a huge benefit. It’s an admin panel, what does weight matter?
   For writers, to be able to see the plugins input without saving a draft is another
   huge plus.
 * If your system/browser is too slow to handle this analysis, maybe the solution
   to the problem is to fix that instead of keeping to an old version.

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