Whether you agree with it or not, @Jon W is not breaking any resource guidelines with this resource or any other. I would suggest if you don't like what this add-on is doing, you simply don't use it and allow the users of Jon's add-on to ask questions and receive support about this add-on as is its purpose.
So if Jon W responds to my post and asks me a question, I shouldn't answer him?
It was a tongue-in-cheek throw-away about something that happened a few days back
This add-on had a perfectly legitimate function, which was to allow the add-on to be installed on a localhost for development purposes. It would also be perfectly legitimate for someone to release an add-on to stop my add-on from doing any callbacks. What would be entirely unethical would be to release an add-on that removed branding, since this would be against the license agreement. But since no-one bothers about that anyway...Seems the other thread was locked.
This is really like kindergarten here.
Now, if ******* would create a similar add-on like Waindigo had to offer (removes the callback from all ******* add-ons) everything would be fine.
https://waindigo.org/threads/*******-installer-by-waindigo.251/
Thank god, Jon was brought back on the right track and already removed this very unethical add-on he created.
Why which bit?
Well I kinda thought that was obvious really - the bit I quoted - why send the member count of a site back to your server.
Just checking. It wasn't obvious. The member count is sent for users who have linked their waindigo.org account to check it against their subscription level so that branding can be removed automatically. If a user hasn't paid for branding removal or has paid for a Gold Subscription (which allows for unlimited users) then the member count is not required.
Okay, so I can see the point sort of for the Gold Subscription, but if they've paid for branding removal... is that based upon membercount too? (Not really seeing how Member count matters, if I'm honest... just because a site has 10K members, doesn't mean 10K are active.)
It is just the measure we use for deciding how much to charge. We want to open it up to as many people as possible, so this means that we ask those with larger sites that have been around longer to pay a little more than those who are just starting out. You can see all our pricing here:
