When will PrestaShop end?

[Yabber]

Since the release of that horribly unsuccessful version 1.7, there has been a mass escape of stores from PrestaShop. On average, over 20 thousand stores are disappearing each month.
I think that in a year no one will know what PrestaShop was.

[vincentdenkspel]

Looks like the stock value of Tesla

[musicmaster]

Prestashop 1.7 was released in november 2016. The fall in users is much more recent. I see two potential reasons:

 - since 2021 Prestashop is owned by an Italian firm, MBE Worldwide. As a consequence the project is now split between an opensource project and the corporation. It now is released in two versions: the opensource version - only available on Github - and the "Edition Basic" that is available on their website prestashop.com. The problem is that the "Edition basic" contains a dozen extra modules that add nothing in shopping functionality but tend to make the software less stable.

 - In the last year they have made it increasingly hard to install Prestashop under Windows with Xampp or similar programs. It is now almost impossible (once installed running is no problem). This may also be a consequence of the increased influence of volunteers on the project. These tend to be Linux nerds who look down on Windows. They forget that Windows is often the first place where try out Prestashop.

Edited April 25 by musicmaster

[the.rampage.rado]

1 hour ago, musicmaster said:

Prestashop 1.7 was released in november 2016. The fall in users is much more recent. I see two potential reasons:

 - since 2021 Prestashop is owned by an Italian firm, MBE Worldwide. As a consequence the project is now split between an opensource project and the corporation. It now is released in two versions: the opensource version - only available on Github - and the "Edition Basic" that is available on their website prestashop.com. The problem is that the "Edition basic" contains a dozen extra modules that add nothing in shopping functionality but tend to make the software less stable.

 - In the last year they have made it increasingly hard to install Prestashop under Windows with Xampp or similar programs. It is now almost impossible (once installed running is no problem). This may also be a consequence of the increased influence of volunteers on the project. These tend to be Linux nerds who look down on Windows. They forget that Windows is often the first place where try out Prestashop.

Ahhh... who is installing CMSes locally to test? 🙄

There are still plenty of PS1.6 users we should try and show them that thirty bees is the way forward. Those on 1.7 or later are lost cause, they would not want to hear about the platform ever again.

[musicmaster]

I get the impression that Prestashop is increasingly targeting big companies and is getting less interested in the small outfits.

That could open an opportunity for Thirty Bees.

Recently I encountered this article. It is about a Dutch company that makes themes and other parts for Magento, specifically targeting parts that Magento considers less attractive.

It is kind of what to me seems a logical future for Thirty Bees. It wouldn't be hard to stay compatible with Prestashop regarding the business data of the database. That way you can offer a very easy migration between Prestashop and Thirty Bees - both ways. The business data changes very slow. Almost all the "innovation" at Prestashop concerns Symfony adaptations. 

[wakabayashi]

Thirty bees is still alive, that is the only thing that counts for me 😊 A lot of great things are going on github. It would be wishful, if we could clone Datakick somewow, but might be difficult 🫠