Solidus hits 3 million downloads | Super Good Software

Ten years ago, when we were considering forking Spree to create Solidus, we had no idea what the future would hold. We weren’t even sure if forking was the right decision. Today, I’m sure we made the right call. I’m proud to announce that as of this week Solidus has been downloaded more than 3 million times on RubyGems.org! Humble Beginnings Leading up to the fork, the Spree community had been struggling with the direction of the project. The biggest issue was with the technical direction of the project. Upgrading from version to version was extremely difficult due to the number of breaking changes in each release. This caused stores to forgo upgrades, disincentivizing them from contributing back to the platform. Less contributions made upgrading less desireable. We needed to break this feedback loop. There were also rumours that the company behind Spree was stepping back. Shortly after we forked the project we learned those rumours were true. Spree Commerce got acquired by First Data and stepped back from the project, leaving a vacuum.