Now not free auto update?

  • Resolved magicadey

    (@magicadey)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    does that me I now have to pay to get same features as already had? will cron jobs i had already made stop working?

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  • Plugin Contributor HTTPS Free SSL Dot Tech

    (@freessl)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    @magicadey Yes, you are right.

    We announced the pro version on November 3, 2020, and explained the difficulty of spending hundreds of hours for the plugin without monetary return. Since then we have notified our users with admin notice. Please feel free to read the post if you haven’t read it already: https://freessl.tech/blog/auto-install-free-ssl-needs-your-help-to-survive/

    As per the announcement, we offer our Existing users 6 months of premium license free of cost. So you can still use the plugin at no cost till 31 December 2022.

    After that, if you purchase a license within one week, you will get a 30% discount!

    The premium plugin will open the opportunity to earn money with our affiliate program (up to 30%) which we’ll launch soon. We have chosen a 3rd party service Freemius for sales and affiliate tracking.

    Tamie

    (@tamierp)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    They notified with a very confusing message. I honestly did not know exactly what they meant. I tried to ask questions for clarification, and they would never answer. Their website seems to have been abandoned outside of announcement that they wanted money for some new thing that they would not explain in a coherent fashion. Questions have not been answered on there in over a year and the form they have for asking support questions stopped working a long time ago. And something else odd about all of this is they will not tell you how much this will cost. They want you to install first then they will spring it on you. That is shady.

    I am not against making money, but to take away from people who have been using something that you chose to offer for free and then sell those features back to them is just wrong. Add something new to sell. As it was you took away the auto update, or it just never worked, I could not quite figure that one out and you would never ever respond to questions on that.

    I hope that someone take the old version, fixes the problems they never fixed nor helped you with and puts it out there for us. I would not mind if it was about paying for the auto installs, but to take virtually all of the features including being able to install on all domains on a server is just crewel. As soon as I find something else, I am done.

    Plugin Contributor HTTPS Free SSL Dot Tech

    (@freessl)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    @tamierp You have written “They want you to install first then they will spring it on you. That is shady.”

    We announced the pro version on November 3, 2020, and explained the difficulty of spending hundreds of hours for the plugin without monetary return. Since then for 1 year and 8 months, we notified our users with admin notice. You had enough time to switch to a different solution if you wanted to.

    To give existing users even more time before making a purchase (or switching to a different solution), we offer our Existing users 6 months of premium license free of cost. So you can still continue using the plugin at no cost till 31 December 2022.

    If you have learned how to install an SSL certificate on your website, the free version is enough for getting an SSL certificate for FREE and you never have to purchase the premium.

    The premium version does this work for you and saves your time (for many people, time is money). Now it’s your choice which version you use or not.

    For the new users, we have clearly mentioned the FREE PLUGIN FEATURES and the PREMIUM PLUGIN FEATURES so they understand the difference and decide before installing.
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    For your information, this plugin and all WordPress plugins are released under ‘GNU General Public License’. As per the practice of WordPress, it is mentioned in the readme.txt file and in the code files.

    GNU GPL tells us, “This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. … When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.”

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