Farewell, superheroes

Hello @codimex,

It made my day reading that the characters have been your favourites and that it is hard to see them go. It has been almost the same on our end. The change in characters and superheroes has been a result of the product teams working and focusing on rebranding all of our products to portray the actual features of the plugins and also with a completely different approach this time.

I have also sent a ping to the respective teams about the feedback from you as well as the other users so to make a note of it and with the ongoing process explore further possibilities about the same.

Should you have any doubts, we’d be happy to answer. Have a great day/ evening ahead.

Thank you,
Prathamesh Palve

Ha @codimex that is very kind of you to say (that you liked them) and thank you for the concern (that they are going away).

So I’ll start with the bad news… they are going away from our product suite ??

The reason for this is that we are more and more business to business these days, basically supporting web developers, freelancers and agencies who – on the whole – use the options we provide to hide the characters and don’t like them from the start.

So a more ‘professional’ brand is required to convince them that our plugins, and WPMU DEV as a whole is, well, professional.

But there is some good news… they are staying for our blog, social media and wordcamps.

This is not just because we bought a lifesize devman costume that fits me (we did though, it’s very very hot!) but because realistically the WP community (plugin developers, core contributors, community folk) is not really our target audience customer-wise and you lot seem to like them and know that we are the real deal already (you do, right?)

So there’s life in them yet ?? But just not as before…

Thanks for the concern… and thanks @wpmudev-support7 too ??

Thanks @farms and @wpmudev-support7 for making my day (and the whole week) with your cool answers. The “lifesize devman costume” made me think of this: what if Wordcamps became a sort of Comic Cons and people could show up dressed in cosplays? I would definitely show up as the Forminator Guy (or even as Branda, my other fav character! Hahahahaha!!!).

It’s sad to say goodbye to the WordPress heroes. In my case, when lookgin for a good form plugin, the Forminator Guy really catched my eye, and probably most of us users did, too. The new avatar icons, if I’m allowed to say so, look just like many other form plugins out there. I understand that, when companies grow, everything gets flattened because in every decision, more and more people need to be pleased (another example: the “Imsanity” plugin has got rid of the “asylum girl”, probably due to political correctness decisions).

Needless to say, you’re one of the top companies in plugin -as well as many other services, like hosting- in WordPress, and we are soooooo lucky that you’re offering such generous plugins for free (and that’s a working business model, since going pro with you is on top of my mind). I’m glad to know our heroes will live in the blogosphere and Wordcampsphere.

Thank you for enjoying this post (everyone is invited to take part, BTW) with such good mood and humour! And thank you for reading my humble opinion as a user (hopefully, future customer, too, if I go pro). Long live the WPMU Heroes!

Ha, anytime @codimex ??

It’s our pleasure to be offering quality free plugins here at wp.org, we only hope to do it better ongoing!

And a bit more cosplay, of course.