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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Prediction Partly held up
Gutenberg lets anyone build New York Times-style rich layouts for free
“What New York Times spent probably tens of thousands of dollars to do a few years ago will be able to enable anyone with WordPress and Gutenberg to do just kind of out of the box.”
Assertion Partly supported
TenWeb's team built 60 WordPress plugins with 25 million downloads
“We previously developed WordPress plugins and built numerous plugins, more than 60 plugins with more than twenty-five million total downloads.”
Assertion Supported
Joost de Valk: Yoast hit 1M users before launching paid tier
“I started out with a free plugin and had a million users and then decided maybe I should make some money from it.”
Assertion Supported
Castos Acquired a WordPress Plugin With 15,000 Active Installs
“So the plugin had about 15,000 active installs in WordPress at the time.”
Assertion Supported
Jacobi: Joomla powers over 3% of the global internet, second to WordPress
“But as a whole, Joomla runs over three percent of the entire global internet. So it's actually only second to WordPress.”
Assertion Supported
WordPress was an early major platform to accept Bitcoin at $12
“And WordPress, I think, was one of the first large Internet services to add support for accepting Bitcoin for our services. At the time, Bitcoin was about 12 dollars”
Assertion Supported
WordPress had only 5,000 total plugins in 2009, says Seth Shoultes
“At the time there was only a 5000 plugins, you know, total in the entire WordPress market space.”