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@GrumpyOldM79813 @alexanderrX_ You miss the point if you tax 100% of income above £40k and give it those under, we all can have £40k we all become rich

@alexanderrX_ £40k? A better definition of rich, is anyone who absolutely doesn’t need to use free breakfast clubs.

i propose we tax the rich aggressively. for far too long they have got away with paying little tax and extracting what is left of our society for themselves. pure gluttony. that is why anyone rich, i.e. above £40k a year, should pay 90%. sacrifice your own salary to help others.

@lukas_ohl @alexanderrX_ And deport any one doing black market deals to a workcamp in Outer Hebrides, just to ensure order and compliance.

@alexanderrX_ Instead of allowing people to earn filthy money, let’s just have government provide all the services they need. Breakfast clubs in schools, council housing for everyone, free bus travel, turn supermarkets into free food banks (max. one toilet roll per customer).

@alexanderrX_ Yes good idea, but why stop at 90% why not 100% the UK median salary is £39k so just pay every one in a full time job £39 flat and the median part time is £35k so just pay every one on benefits, part time or pensions £35k. Seems only fair.

@DerekAshauer @ifahimreza @SunPhotoCart @ConversionWP @WPSunshinecom Well Matt will know - he has the install data for wp downloads, and the updates tracked - but good luck getting that.

@ifahimreza @alanefuller @SunPhotoCart @ConversionWP @WPSunshinecom It's the answer I think everyone is trying to figure out right now. I've been hearing the entire gamut of ideas on it all, not sure anyone has the answer yet.

Solo WordPress plugin founders: How are your plugin sales compared to last year? 🟢 Up 🟡 About the same 🔴 Down If they’re down, roughly by what %?

@BlakeWhittle7 Yes totally ridiculous, but the web development firm also seemed to fix mobile phone screens. He told me he was about to go bust so I stopped hosting and provided the files.

@alanefuller …….what? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard

I swear I am the only agency who knows how to migrate a site. Another agency is taking over one of our clients, and they want to schedule 2 calls with us for the migration, WP Access, SFTP, and a database dump. All of which I've provided them. Not rocket science.

@benswrite @sinanisler Don't get too excited, using the past 25 years data the chance of England winning WC overall = 13.6%. Although using form and book maker odds on recent performance is 21% so 5-1 odds which is actually where they were at the start of the tournament, they have performed as expected

@alanefuller @sinanisler Hmmmmm interesting!

Englands chances against Argentina on Wednesday, and who are you supporting? (If you follow the WC of course!)

@benswrite @sinanisler France vs Spain (last 25 years, men's senior internationals): 🇪🇸 Spain wins: 6 (54.5%) 🇫🇷 France wins: 4 (36.4%) 🤝 Draws: 1 (9.1%)

@benswrite @sinanisler Ok I'll ask Chad as I have got him in context.

@benswrite A wise man told me that, before I knew the difference between book maker and book keeper 🤣

@alanefuller True!

@benswrite The only way to win out of gambling is being the book maker. 🤣

@benswrite @sinanisler For the overall all-time men's head-to-head: England wins: 14 Spain wins: 10 Draws: 3 That's approximately: 🏴 England: 51.9% 🇪🇸 Spain: 37.0% 🤝 Draws: 11.1% Despite England leading the all-time series, Spain have had the upper hand in recent decades

@sinanisler Agree ENG v ESP would be a cracker of a match!!

@robinpietersen My plugins Jan-Jun 2026 v 2025 (all been around a long time ) Display Eventbrite 🔴 new sales -11.4% Fullworks Anti Spam 🟢 new sales +183.3% Quick Paypal Payments 🔴 new sales -33.3% Anti Spam I re-aligned to a niche - GDPR friendly ( unlike main Anti Spam server solutions)

Lot of discussion lately about WordPress plugin sales declining. Would be great to see some data. Has anyone conducted a survey in the past year or so?

@ifahimreza @DerekAshauer @SunPhotoCart @ConversionWP @WPSunshinecom It doesn't quite answer the structural question though. Good marketing can take a bigger drink from an evaporating pond. The real question is how fast is the pond evaporating.

@DerekAshauer @SunPhotoCart @ConversionWP @WPSunshinecom Thanks for sharing. It's a good reminder that consistent marketing is just as important as building the product.

@ifahimreza Over what period have you seen the drop? Across the board WP new installs have dropped massively and NEW installs directly impact plugin sales. Some estimates indicate around 40% drop in volume. Chasing SEO may be the wrong thing to look at.

My two WordPress plugin sites have lost up to 60% of their Google traffic. New plugin sales are down almost 50%. Most of the traffic loss came from my documentation pages. My next 90 days: - Make both sites more AI-friendly. - Improve my sales funnel. - Stop relying only on Google. SEO takes time, so I'm giving YouTube a serious try. I'll share what works and what doesn't.

@JH_Investments Basic rate tax was 33% when I started and the highest rate was 83% on earned income over inflation adjusted equivalent if £178k. Consider yourself lucky.

The UK’s 40% tax rate was meant for the wealthy. Now nearly 1 in 5 taxpayers pay it. In the 1990s it was closer to 1 in 30. At what point does a “tax on the rich” become a tax on people with a good salary rather than real wealth?

@lkr @VicVijayakumar Don't you have a bigger issue, you have an entire residence just sitting there in used and unsupervised?

@VicVijayakumar its not on or anything, I did not predict that I would need a randomly turned on mac mini at home!

Guys I own a Mac mini but I started traveling full time in Jan and started on Claude code in February ITS JUST BEEN SITTING THERE UNUSED THE WHOLE TIME 😭

@NeilWilcock2 @news_numen @ANMalikSmith McLaren supercars Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Fuller's beer Guinness Bombay Sapphire Beefeater Gin Gordon's Gin Twinings Tea Shepherd Neame beer Harveys beer Chapel Down wine Brompton bicycles Wilkinson Sword razors Oyster Yachts Hornby model railways

@news_numen @ANMalikSmith The redistribution of wealth linked to the state is what’s needed. Move the government functions outside London. The South East and London economy was built on the labour of others and relies on service sector that was created by it. What products are produced in these areas?

75% of Brits agree that it's time for us to tax wealth. Let's get it done and build a fairer economy, reduce inequality and let the British working class prosper.

@KatieKeithBarn2 OK that is about stickiness of WordPress. And it is true, once on a platform people tend to stay. I still actually host half a dozen sites I built 15 years ago. The problem is new sites, that's where plugin growth comes from, and my own data suggests new installs are down 30-40%

I analyzed 2,294 websites that bought our Document Library Pro plugin but didn't renew, and this is where they are now: - Still on WordPress: ~1,200 (52%) - Site no longer exists: ~900 (39%) - Left WordPress for another platform: 194 (8%) I think this is a good sign for WordPress as a platform. Does it fit with your own analysis of churned customers?