It was good… but not anymore

  • It is a shame, a good solid plugin that really worked until some recent updates where it was downgraded.

    I understand when a dev wants to make money from his work – that’s fair enough, it’s not unreasonable. What is unreasonable though is when a dev decides to remove or weaken functionality from his plugin in order to push his new “pro” version. A pro version should really mean extra functionality, like the ability to work with Jetpack comments or something similar.

    I could have respected the decision to stop development on this plugin and only push the commercial version – at least then it would still work but everyone would know the score… that it’s no longer going to be free. But to deliberately break this version and ask people to pay for what they originally had is just low.

    Given how good this plugin was, I would have probably paid for the pro version but now that I know how you treat your user base, I won’t. In fact, I’ve already switched to another plugin (that is less intrusive) because this one is broken!

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  • Plugin Author Todd Lahman

    (@toddlahman)

    Spam Free WordPress uses much weaker spam protection than Simple Comments. If you need something stronger then upgrade to Simple Comments. Currently there is a 3 day free trial for Simple Comments.

    Spammers are constantly changing their approach, which is why comment spam has more than doubled in the past year, and spam protection has become a full-time effort that only a commercial plugin can provide.

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