Title: Jumping ship
Last modified: March 2, 2017

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# Jumping ship

 *  [FGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativetopia/)
 * (@creativetopia)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/)
 * Just received notice that there is a new plugin owner and they have already started
   to reface the plugin. Not happy with the chosen look-and-feel and how it is all
   in your face. Yoast was bad enough about selling their services but this is worst.
 * Now, I have to update over 30 sites and integrate GA another way.
 * See ya later.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [FGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativetopia/).
      Reason: I do not use the plugin anymore but increasing a few stars for the
      transparency in response

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 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/#post-8088512)
 * Hi there,
    I’m sorry you decided to leave.
 * We didn’t actually change anything in the interface. We actually just swapped
   out graphics that Yoast had with ones for us, and changed the menu icon to a 
   temporary icon (which was of 2 hours ago was changed for the permanent WP UI 
   styled menu icon.
 * In addition, we also fixed compatibility bugs with WordPress 4.5.
 * I hope you’ll reconsider us in the future!
 *  [Derek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakeair/)
 * (@snakeair)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/#post-8088527)
 * FGD, Nothing actually changed but 4 pictures and coding fix’s. Visit the monsterinsights
   blog to see what Syed has said in his opening blog post and he even answers a
   ton of questions.
 * People to fast to jump off the wagon because they can not except change so easily.
 *  [Fabien Quatravaux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fab1en/)
 * (@fab1en)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/#post-8088530)
 * [@derek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derek/) : I think the issue is in
   the developer camp. There should have been a notice somewhere to say “don’t worry,
   this plugin is still the one you loved before, we just changed the logo”. And
   why not mentioning Yoast as a co-author ? Or just a little note at the end of
   the description saying that this code has been written by Yoast ?
 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/#post-8088531)
 * > There should have been a notice somewhere to say “don’t worry, this plugin 
   is still the one you loved before, we just changed the logo”
 * There actually is one. When you first updated the plugin, an admin notice appears
   to tell you that. It says “Google Analytics by Yoast is now MonsterInsights. 
   Click here to learn more about this change”. It’s also in the changelog, and 
   there have been announcement from both Yoast’s team and our team.
 * As we move forward, as has happened already, much of the underlying code is being
   changed. On .org, an “author” doesn’t signify a person who authored the plugin,
   it signifies who has access the plugin’s repo as an admin.
 *  [Fabien Quatravaux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fab1en/)
 * (@fab1en)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jumping-ship/#post-8088533)
 * [@chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris/) : I did not saw the admin
   notice because I made the update via command-line. Many developers use automated
   tools to perform the updates, so you should not rely on a message being displayed
   just once during the update process.
 * The mention of ownership change in the changelog is not prominent and is very
   laconic. I would have expected a small but complete sentence saying that Yoast
   trusts MonsterInsights and a link to one of your respective websites. I would
   have also expected that this sentence can be found in the description tab, at
   least during 4 or 6 months after the change.
 * [@derek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derek/) : It’s not about accepting
   change, it’s about trust.

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