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OpenClaw Platform Trending Down — Subscription Cutoff Triggered Rapid Community Collapse
r/LocalLLaMA discussion with 148 upvotes and 130 comments tracks OpenClaw's accelerating decline. The platform peaked at 247,000 GitHub stars in mid-March 2026 (fastest-growing GitHub project in history) but collapsed sharply in April after a subscription model change. Between February and April, the software didn't change but the economics did — the community disintegrated in days. Plugin dependency loops, gateway slowdowns, and a fractured ClawHub ecosystem compounded the exodus. The team announced LTS plans for late May.
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