Almost Worth It

  • kurtmanos

    (@kurtmanos)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    While the plugin is well written, it follows a recent trend that is a massive turnoff. The features most needed are only available in the paid version. The free version doesn’t allow the admin to make using this plugin compulsory, which means it’s useless. While I greatly appreciate the amount of effort involved in coding (been coding for over 40 years, myself), charging $20+ annually PER site is entirely unrealistic. Add the sheer number of plugins a typical WP site uses, multiply that by the number of sites many web admins are responsible for, and it’s simply too expensive for what I’m getting. We all want to live in mansions, but let’s get real. I pay $100 annually for my Office 365 Family, and six of us gets the full suite of products PLUS each of us gets a terabyte of cloud storage.
    I’ll be using a different plugin on my sites.

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson / Team Updraft

    (@davidanderson)

    2 years, 6 months ago

    > “The features most needed”
    > “The free version doesn’t allow the admin to make using this plugin compulsory, which means it’s useless. ”

    Our research shows that >90% of WP sites have a single user. So the question of policy enforcement on other users never comes up.

    And then beyond that, for the majority of the remainder, the users know/trust eachother, so again, enforcement is a non-issue.

    i.e. the feature is not even relevant to the overwhelming majority of WP site owners. Needing to enforce policies, where you have untrusted users, is a minority use case indicating that the site is some sort of community, likely to be of non-trivial size. If that sort of thing isn’t a paid feature, then your view must be pretty close to “there should be no paid features”. If there were no paid features, there would be no free features either. The freemium model is popular for WP plugins for a reason: it can actually provably sustain professional-quality plugins, year after year.

    Possibly you have simply misunderstood what is meant by “enforcement” in the feature description.

    > charging $20+ annually PER site

    The 25 site licence for $75 is $3 per site.

    David

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