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@adam: I can’t believe what I read here! It is “ridiculous” to have to go to the developer’s website for documentation???
How barefaced must one be to raise expectations like that on a free plugin?
And it’s only a “great scheme to get lots of traffic” if the plugin is really good and has a huge user base. If that’s the case, then they DESERVE the traffic. Lamenting about it is nothing but pathetic!
Before running down other people and their work (work that you obviously intend to benefit from), ask yourself when was the last time YOU gave something away for free!
God, I can’t even begin to tell how much this kind of attitude towards FOSS authors upsets me. They deserve nothing but the greatest respect. End of story.
Well, “Updates/fixes” includes fixes, doesn’t it? But there are none.
In fact, the update consist solely of those social media links.
Why not say so in the change log?
Don’t get me wrong. I think you have a great plugin there, and you have every right to insert any social media marketing gadgets in it that you see fit.
I just don’t think that being nontransparent about it does you, or the community as a whole, any favor.
And I see it all over, updates being pushed towards users with nothing but “self-marketing” additions in them. Which would be okay by itself. But then they go and hide it behind generic change-log entries such as “minor updates” or so. As if they were afraid to admit they’ve done something for themselves in return for developing and maintaining their plugin for free.
Now there might be plugins that do not provide very great value and hence may warrant such fear.
Yours is not among them.