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

[Mika A Epstein]

I wouldn't recommend it, but not for that. It's currently not available in the repo (not since April), which is always a sign of something.

FWIW, there's nothing against the rules about what they're doing. While its kind of a di** maneuver to have a plugin and then, without documenting it, offer no support, it is what it is. Plugin devs should be able to make a living too.

(Generally I just tell people to go pay for help in those cases.)

On May 14, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Francisco de Azevedo <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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