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A user shares reasons they gave to Earendil's CEO for the decline of Pi's traffic in the China region, citing feature bloat after version 0.87, confusion over Pi Durable's direction, and the reintroduction of MCP in 1.0 as conflicting with the earlier lightweight philosophy.

Asked by the Pi official 😂, reasons for the decline in traffic in the China region Today I received an email from Earendil's CEO, because he noticed that Pi's traffic in the China region has dropped significantly, so he came to consult me to see what the reasons might be I provided him with three directions: 1. After 0.87, more and more features were added, and many people started feeling that the official version was a bit "too full," and Pi was gradually deviating from the initial simple and pure feeling. 2. After Pi Durable was launched, many people became even more confused instead. Is Pi going to continue as a lightweight Coding Agent, or is it heading towards a long-running Agent Runtime? 3. Adding MCP to the core in 1.0 also left many long-time users puzzled. Previously, Pi and Mario had always emphasized "no need for MCP," but now bringing it back, many people feel it conflicts a bit with the previous philosophy. These three points combined might be the reason why some users in the China region started to drift away. Later, he also invited me to do a video call, but unfortunately my English isn't that great, so I politely declined Later he told me he knows a little bit of Chinese, and we can move things forward, he's still a pretty interesting person I also hope PI can grow stronger and stronger in the China region, and become the propaganda master of the China region
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Asked by the Pi official 😂, reasons for the decline in traffic in the China region

Today I received an email from Earendil’s CEO, because he noticed that Pi’s traffic in the China region has dropped significantly, so he came to consult me to see what the reasons might be

I provided him with three directions:

  1. After 0.87, more and more features were added, and many people started feeling that the official version was a bit “too full,” and Pi was gradually deviating from the initial simple and pure feeling.

  2. After Pi Durable was launched, many people became even more confused instead. Is Pi going to continue as a lightweight Coding Agent, or is it heading towards a long-running Agent Runtime?

  3. Adding MCP to the core in 1.0 also left many long-time users puzzled. Previously, Pi and Mario had always emphasized “no need for MCP,” but now bringing it back, many people feel it conflicts a bit with the previous philosophy.

These three points combined might be the reason why some users in the China region started to drift away.

Later, he also invited me to do a video call, but unfortunately my English isn’t that great, so I politely declined

Later he told me he knows a little bit of Chinese, and we can move things forward, he’s still a pretty interesting person

I also hope PI can grow stronger and stronger in the China region, and become the propaganda master of the China region

小墨同学 (@xiaomovps): Pi 官方授权通过了,还是合伙人兼首席执行官科林,亲自回复的。

虽然具体不知道公司多少人,但是能被CEO亲自回复,感觉还是很不错的。

官方授权,我可以转译修改,或者是在可控范围内使用文章,但是必须保留相关的权益说明和对应的条款。

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