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Hi @djpaul thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts 😍. It’s true BuddyPress backward compatibility is preventing us to do breaking changes. I thought using a plugin to try to migrate to Rewrite API would help make the transition. Problem is not much plugin developers are testing it and we’re stuck.

Although a bit « radical », I like the idea of restarting from another plugin, it’s probably something we should consider: I agree it’s the safest way to avoid being stuck by backward compat and still have an old plugin for old users and plugin developers 😇.

I’ll be a bit provocative 😁. I’m wondering since Plugin developers never show up to contribute or test BuddyPress: is maintaining backward compatibility worth the pain?

Or is the fact we’re maintaining this backward compatibility is the reason why plugin developers are not very involved in contributing to BuddyPress ?

It’s a very tough choice to make as we’ve all put a lot of ourselves into the « old » plugin.