[wp-forums] Thoughts on the share-and-follow plugin support system

[Francisco de Azevedo]

Hello everybody!
I recently recommended this plugin to an user on the forums since we have
been using it on one of our sites and it works really well.
However, this was before I realized the plugin seems to have been removed
from the repository. While researching why that may have happened, I landed
here:
http://share-and-follow.com/support/
This seems a little border-line to me since the user seems to be offering
the plugin free of charge as a backdoor to sell premium support to its
users, and just let us volunteers take care of the rest of the plugin
users. Also, if you look at his profile, it seems it's been a couple of
months since he participated in the forums, which tends to confirm my fears.
Could that be the reason why the plugin is no longer available? If it's
not, what are your thoughts on this?
Cheers!



On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:48 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>
> wrote:
> > on 14/05/2012 13:42 Daniel Fenn said the following:
> >
> >> How can it be a security issue? As long as suPHP is installed and the
> >> configuration is right no one should be able to touch other users
> >> files. Other configuration would need to be check but there is no
> >> reason to disable it for security reasons.
> >
> >
> > I said that they are a well-established hosting company. I didn't say
> that
> > they were sensible. :-)
> >
> > The same company blocks xmlrpc.php and then suggests you can get around
> it
> > by renaming the file!
>
> A better way to get around it is by changing what company you do
> business with for hosting.
>
> Just sayin'.
>
> -Otto
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