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

[Mika A Epstein]

Figuring out how to notify and when and where is being worked on.

On May 14, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Francisco de Azevedo <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Otto: Cool! I think it is really useful to know that because there are a
> couple of threads in the forums where people are wondering about this:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-and-follow-deleted
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-and-follow-plugin-where-is-it
> 
> @Mika: Thanks for sharing your opinion. This situation seemed a little in
> the gray area to me, so I wanted to see if I was maybe making a big deal
> out of this. I think in my case I just can't abide by this practice since I
> find it rather sketchy, so I don't think I'll keep using the plugin or
> recommending it for that matter.
> Do you think WP users should be informed of this? Because the plugin author
> seems to only have informed about this change in his "support strategy" on
> his site. Suddenly, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series comes to
> mind. I wonder why... ;-)
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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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