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

[Francisco de Azevedo]

Awesome, thanks!


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> 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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