Mac's Opinion
Jetpack Social Plugin Alternative Because Jetpack Is Garbage Now
Jetpack Social plugin alternative
So The Jetpack Social plugin has turned into a greedy money grab
I have been a die-hard Jetpack user for over a decade. I was first a user of the Askimet spam blocker they created way back in the day when blogging was really fun for the spammers to try and post their crappy spam links into your blog comments.
They've expanded to other popular plugin ideas like the related posts feature you see at the bottom of every post on this site, the social share icons at the bottom of every post on this site, SEO features (I don't use this, I have a better one), and the ever-so-popular automatic social share that would share your post automatically to all of your connected social networks whenever you posted something new.
So why delete Jetpack?
So over the past few days, I noticed that the automatic social share feature says I have 0 shares remaining and that I should purchase more.
What the heck? I've been using this feature forever and never had a limit to how many times I could share my posts automatically to all my connected social networks. What is going on? Why are they doing this for a feature that is something you can actually do yourself manually? Why would anyone want to pay for this?
Yes, having it automatically post for me instead of me having to click on the share icons at the bottom of my post for all of my connected social media connections is a lot better, but not over $160 better!
Surely this is some kind of mistake, is it?
Jetpack Social Plugin Alternative Because Jetpack Is Garbage Now
Jetpack Social plugin alternative
So The Jetpack Social plugin has turned into a greedy money grab
I have been a die-hard Jetpack user for over a decade. I was first a user of the Askimet spam blocker they created way back in the day when blogging was really fun for the spammers to try and post their crappy spam links into your blog comments.
They've expanded to other popular plugin ideas like the related posts feature you see at the bottom of every post on this site, the social share icons at the bottom of every post on this site, SEO features (I don't use this, I have a better one), and the ever-so-popular automatic social share that would share your post automatically to all of your connected social networks whenever you posted something new.
So why delete Jetpack?
So over the past few days, I noticed that the automatic social share feature says I have 0 shares remaining and that I should purchase more.
What the heck? I've been using this feature forever and never had a limit to how many times I could share my posts automatically to all my connected social networks. What is going on? Why are they doing this for a feature that is something you can actually do yourself manually? Why would anyone want to pay for this?
Yes, having it automatically post for me instead of me having to click on the share icons at the bottom of my post for all of my connected social media connections is a lot better, but not over $160 better!
Surely this is some kind of mistake, is it?